Paul Stokes

Paul Stokes was a young businessman who was a potential client of Underworld. Nick Tilsley had got him interested in doing and deal and arranged for him to visit the factory. At the last minute, Nick did a runner to the Lake District, agreeing after some argument to go along with him brother David Platt’s plan to bribe a cleaner in the holiday cottage on the scene of the death of Joe McIntyre some months before – an incident for which their mother Gail Platt now stood on trial for murder.

Nick’s business partner, Carla Connor had to step in for Nick, and luckily for her, she caught the roving eye of Paul Stokes. However Carla’s boyfriend Trevor Dean was in the factory at the same time and Paul misunderstood the relationship, thinking Trevor was a manager and Carla reported to him. Paul, Carla and Trevor went to the Rovers to hammer out the deal. Unfortunately, while taking a mobile phone call, Paul overheard Trevor and Carla talking about their true relationship to each other and was annoyed for being taken for a mug. When he heard that Trevor was a binman and not even a part of the company, he pulled out of the deal altogether and walked out on the pair, cancelling his order.