Valerie Phelan

Valerie Phelan is the wife of the villainous Pat Phelan. Pat was a bankrupt and most of his assets were in her name. Although he had a tendency to cheat on her with other women, she had gotten used to it and stayed with him.

In October 2013 she was visited by Owen Armstrong who had done some work for Pat, unaware he was a bankrupt. She had refused to give up Pat's whereabouts and reveals to Owen that all of his assets are in her name, so Pat doesn't have to pay for the work. This lead to Owen to break into their home and steal Pat's motorbike, leading to him to pay up.

Near the end of the year, Valerie and Pat turned up at the Armstrong and Windass family household with a proposition. Pat had pitched an idea to build a block of flats, and wanted Owen to front the project as Pat was a bankrupt. Owen eventually accepted the project. Valerie and Pat began to spend a lot of time with the family, going on nights out to Nick's Bistro. Although seemingly unaware, Pat had his eyes on Owen's girlfriend Anna Windass and acted inappropriately around her. He later tried to make a move on Anna, which had shaken her up. This caused a chain of events which led to her son Gary to get into a fight with Pat leading to him being knocked unconscious. Pat had went missing shortly after the attack, and Valerie called round at the house to ask for his whereabouts.

Pat however was alive and well, and having the attack on CCTV, used it to blackmail Owen and Gary into working for him at a low wage. After weeks of torment, Anna had pleaded with Valerie to stop Pat from blackmailing her family as it was putting a lot of stress on Owen and Gary. Anna had then admitted Pat made advances on her, but Valerie had accused her of possibly bringing it on herself and refused to help. However (off-screen) Valerie had confronted Pat, who decided to talk to Anna. He gave Anna a dirty proposition, to sleep with him and he would let Owen and Gary go from the contract (although they would be in serious debts). Anna had gone ahead with it and Pat let Gary and Owen go.

List of Appearances
2013
 * Wed 2nd Oct
 * Sun 22nd Dec

2014
 * Fri 17th Jan (2)
 * Mon 3rd Feb (2)
 * Wed 5th Feb
 * Fri 7th Feb (2)
 * Fri 14th Feb (1)
 * Fri 14th Feb (2)
 * Fri 21st Feb (2)
 * Mon 24th Feb (2)
 * Mon 3rd Mar (1)
 * Mon 3rd Mar (2)
 * Mon 10th Mar (2)
 * Wed 26th Mar
 * Fri 4th Apr (2)