Jon (Paramedic)

Jon and his colleague came in their ambulance to Victoria Street when Leanne Tilsley was knocked unconscious by Simon Barlow in September 2015. They had been alerted by Dev Alahan and Mary Taylor who found Leanne when her bathwater started to overrun from her flat into Prima Doner below. Mary tried to chat Jon up, complementing him on the eight-minute time it took them to answer the 999 call. Zeedan Nazir was passing and saw what had happened to his father's fiancée with concern. He asked to be allowed to go with them to Weatherfield General and Jon let him accompany them on the journey.

Just over four months later in January 2016, the emergency services were on scene at the home of Cathy Matthews after she'd accidentally set the property ablaze. Having found out that her late-husband Alan and her sister Nessa Warner had been conducting an affair following the discovery of their love letters while de-cluttering her house, Cathy binned the letters and set light to them. Although the fire quickly took hold, Nessa raised the alarm while Roy Cropper entered the house and pulled Cathy to safety. Jon helped Cathy to the awaiting ambulance and ushered a visibly shaken Nessa away from the doors as she tried to beg her sister's forgiveness. Roy accompanied Cathy in the ambulance where she taken to hospital as a precautionary measure, but was cleared and discharged later that day.

He was a member of the emergency services who rushed to Rosamund Street in October 2016 where a car driven at high speed by David Platt had crashed, hitting his own daughter Lily and her rescuer Gary Windass. David had been trying to get to Weatherfield Crown Court in an attempt to kill Clayton Hibbs who had knifed his wife, Kylie, to death. The residents lifted the vehicle off the two but leaked petrol ignited, badly burning Anna Windass. Jon helped secure Anna prior to her ambulance trip, assuring Kevin Webster that they could give her something for the pain that she was suffering and that they would check out all of the people involved in the incident. That included Lily who he told the Platts should also go to hospital. Once there, Jon prevented Kevin and Gary entering the treatment room in A&E where his colleagues attended to Anna's injuries.

He attended at Victoria Court in February 2017 when Leanne Battersby was trapped in a lift with her sister Toyah and started to go into labour. Toyah was given instructions through the closed door by Jon and medical centre nurse Rana Nazir, leading to the successful birth of Oliver Battersby. When the doors were at last opened, he checked over mother and baby and they were then put into an ambulance to take them to hospital.

Jon and the other emergency services rushed to Coronation Street in March 2019 after the roof of Underworld had collapsed, deliberately sabotaged by a desperate Gary Windass in the hope of being given the contract to carry out expensive repairs. Sally Metcalfe was one of the most seriously injured and Jon talked to her about the need to keep calm while they got her out of the debris. He allowed husband Tim to join them in the ambulance while they rushed her to Weatherfield General.

Seven months later, he and a colleague called to 8 Coronation Street after toddler Harry Platt was injured in an altercation with his young cousin Lily. He diagnosed a cut to the head and took the child to the hospital where he was diagnosed with mild concussion.

Just under two years later, in August 2021, the incident was more serious when ten year-old Hope Stape deliberately started a fire in 2a Coronation Street. Her life had been torn apart when Tyrone Dobbs had begun an affair with "younger model" Alina Pop and moved out of 9 Coronation Street where he was the partner of Fiz Stape and his own daughter Ruby Dobbs. When Alina fell pregnant, Hope was initially excited but then became jealous that she was being squeezed out of Tyrone's affections, especially when she overheard his delight at the news that the forthcoming baby was a boy. Using a stolen set of keys and some nail varnish remover, she began a blaze using a scented candle to destroy the baby's new cot, not knowing that Alina was asleep in the bedroom. Eileen Grimshaw and Sally Metcalfe spotted the smoke and raised the alarm to summon the emergency services. Tyrone rushed back to see Alina being stretchered out unconscious and Jon informed him that although she had suffered no burns, she had inhaled a lot of smoke. Taken to hospital, Alina subsequently suffered a miscarriage.

Roy himself was the next emergency in June 2024. The genial cafe owner had undergone a traumatic year after being wrongfully accused of the murder of teenager Lauren Bolton, something for which he received much abuse from locals who didn't know him as well as others did. A group of yobs harassing him in Victoria Street was the final straw and soon afterwards he had a heart attack and rang for an ambulance himself before collapsing and needing CPR from the paramedics when they arrived. They rushed him to hospital where the doctor suspected that a stent which had been fitted the previous June had failed and ordered that Roy be taken immediately into surgery.

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Credited as "Paramedic" on each occasion, his forename, "Jon", was given in Episode 11462 (6th January 2025).