Jerry Hopkins

Jerry Hopkins was the husband of Martin Platt’s nursing colleague Rebecca. Their marriage was going through a bad patch because of Jerry’s refusal to start a family. Martin leant her a shoulder to cry on but this caused wife Gail to suspect that the two of them were having an affair. Persuaded that there was nothing actually going on, Gail and Martin attended the nurses’ Christmas party and they met Jerry for the first time, realising how abusive and argumentative he was towards his wife.

Martin’s sympathetic attitude towards Rebecca did indeed develop into a full-blown affair which Jerry cottoned onto. He called at 8 Coronation Street when Martin was out and delighted in telling Gail of his suspicions. When asked to leave, he made a dig at the age difference between Gail and her husband, keen to make his own wife’s life as difficult as possible.

Tired of Jerry’s abuse, both mental and physical, Rebecca served him with divorce papers. He turned up at her flat, ready for a fight and he and Martin came to blows. Martin bested him and Jerry threatened revenge but, in the event, slunk off out of his wife’s life.

List of appearances

 * Episode 4735 (17th December 1999)
 * Episode 4758 (24th January 2000)
 * Episode 4811 (26th April 2000)
 * Episode 4812 (28th April 2000)