be permanently engaged to one or the other of them. But, her past continued to be a stumbling block, and prevented her from ever marrying either of them.
Eventually, she married an IRA member so that he could stay in the country, thought he had died, only for him to turn up at the altar at her next wedding, had another boyfriend die at the hands of his nurse in a mercy killing, became a prostitute again, got raped, had her baby dangled from a window by a mad woman, and finally left town with the rapist father of her daughter (who also turned out to be Fiona's long presumed dead son).
One of the biggest shocks in the show came during the twins' twenty first birthday party, when Patricia announced to David that he was not their real father.
She had been pregnant when she had met him and, sizing him up as the mug he was, had decided to pass them off as his. This led to a host of new characters being introduced into the story, including Martin Healy, the twins' real father. Much hand-wringing, and evil plotting by Patricia ensued, before Martin started to wish he had never got involved with his loopy family and shot himself. Not one to miss an opportunity, Patricia destroyed his suicide note, and watched David go to jail for his "murder".
David was eventually cleared, and for the next couple of years the adult characters played a complicated game of "musical partners" with each others' siblings. Gordon and Patricia divorced, and shortly after Gordon married old friend Barbara Armstrong, Patricia wed Barb's brother, Stephen Morrell. David and Beryl also split, and David was due to tie the knot with Patricia's sister, Margaret, but she died of injuries sustained in a freak accident.
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