William "Will" Hackett is a fictional character from the British Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks, played by Oliver Farnworth.
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Will Hackett was fast-tracked into Oxford University at 16 but dropped out due to complications.
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Now at HCC with a second chance, Will Hackett is extremely moody and keeps himself to himself but has developed obsessive feelings for Zoe Carpenter.
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Will Hackett tried to win her affection but she turned him down; he has since tried more devious means of winning her praise by trying to sabotage her new relationship with Zak Ramsey.
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When Zak and Zoe made up, Will Hackett broke into her bedroom and hid some of her possessions.
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Will Hackett is not beyond manipulating people as long as it benefits or amuses him.
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Will Hackett only came clean after Jessica had accused all of their other flatmates.
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Will Hackett got increasingly obsessed with Zod and she was about to leave him so he therefore sabotaged Zoe's trip to New York City.
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Later in the student bar, Will Hackett manipulates Jessica to go talk to Zoe for him and convince her that he didn't deliberately hurt her hand.
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Will Hackett later tells Jessica that Zoe was bitching about her and Kris and that causes a massive argument.
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Zak later puts her to bed to sleep but Will Hackett is watching this on his webcam, and creeps into her room.
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Will Hackett tries to load the screen up on his laptop, only to be rumbled by Zak.
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Zak tries to convince Zoe that Will Hackett has "something to hide" on his laptop, and suggests he's a stalker.
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Will Hackett later gets the laptop by setting off the college fire alarm and going into Will's room when he's evacuated.
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Will Hackett looks round and locks her in the room and tells her he loves her.
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Will Hackett admits he drugged her and after more violent struggles, he drags her up the stairs and onto the roof, and dangles her over the edge, only to be seen by Zak down below.
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Will Hackett tells him to 'back off' repeatedly and tells Zoe he never meant to hurt her, with flashbacks of him trapping Zoe's arm in the taxi door, watching her with the hidden webcamera and drugging her.
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Will Hackett got interviewed by a psychiatrist to explain his behaviour.
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Will Hackett told her that Zoe made his life hell, and that Zoe asked him to film her, saying she enjoyed it, and they would watch the videos over together.
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Will Hackett goes on to say that he didn't drag Zoe up on the rooftop, he followed her.
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Will Hackett printed Zoe out to be a manipulative cheating self-obsessed liar.
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Will Hackett said she slept with other men and told him his life wasn't worth living.
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Will Hackett was to be taken by ambulance and was then sectioned under the Mental Health Act 1983.
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