Template:19 February

19th February 1993: The funeral of young mother Lisa Duckworth, tragically killed when she was knocked down by a car, proved to be as much of a battleground as the final year of her life had been. Lisa had been the wife of Terry Duckworth, marrying him because she was pregnant but she was stunned to discover that he had only proposed as he would be allowed to attend the wedding while in Strangeways Jail for GBH and he looked on it as an excuse to make an escape, which in the end proved unsuccessful. Lonely and hen-pecked by mother-in-law Vera, Lisa found solace in neighbour Des Barnes, eventually moving in with him. Condemned by Terry's family and her own, tensions were high at the funeral and Des thought it wise to watch from a distance, backed up by friend Curly Watts, and he only approached the grave after the remainder of the party were moving away. Terry, again on special release and despite his admission to Vera that Lisa meant nothing to him, went for Des and he had to be held back by prison guards while the womenfolk shrieked their own admonitions. It was only when they had all departed that Des was able to say his own quiet goodbye.
 * For more information see Episode 3505 (19th February 1993).