Luke Britton was a mechanic at Webster's Autocentre and the older brother of Steph.
An honest, amiable chap with an interest in stock car racing, Luke was very protective of others and always tried to do the right thing. In 2015, he protected Steph from blackmail threats from his old friend Jamie Bowman. Then in 2018 he attempted to trace Steph's missing ex-boyfriend Andy Carver, which consequently leads him to getting killed in a vehicle explosion from his car at the hands of Andy's killer Pat Phelan.
In his four years in Coronation Street, Luke had relationships with three very different women: Maria Connor, Tracy Barlow, and Alya Nazir.
Biography
Luke arrived in Weatherfield to help his sister Steph move in with Tina McIntyre at 19a Victoria Street. He later tried to obtain a job at Websters' Auto Centre. With Kevin Webster away looking after his father in Germany, the establishment was being managed single-handedly by Tyrone Dobbs.
Later in the year, Luke began to get close to single mother Maria Connor and her son Liam and they eventually got engaged. Luke became a father figure to Maria's son, Liam, the son of Maria's late husband, also called Liam. Upon discovering that Steph's boyfriend "Gavin Rodwell" was in fact Andy Carver, he hit Andy believing that he was taking advantage of his sister. Maria called off their relationship, not wanting Liam to be around someone violent. However, when the truth came out in June 2015 about Andy, Maria felt bad for dumping Luke and asked him if he wanted to give their relationship another go, which he agreed to.
In 2016, when Maria went to Cyprus to look after her ill mother, she returned with a husband - Pablo - which shocked Luke. Although Maria explained that the marriage only came about to hide Pablo's homosexuality, Luke still felt uncomfortable about the arrangement. Later, in September 2016, Maria unexpectedly broke off the engagement, telling Luke that she thought they'd drifted apart. In reality, she had slept with Aidan Connor and was falling for him, but this didn't come out for over a year.
Luke developed an interest in Tracy Barlow in January 2017, but their age gap was something of a distraction for everyone else. They didn't care. In fact, on Tracy's 40th birthday, which they enjoyed by having dinner in Nick's Bistro, Tracy attacked a temporary waitress who tried to come on to Luke and insulted Tracy for her age. Despite this, their relationship remained purely casual, consisting mainly of sessions in the bedroom which Tracy hid from her father and daughter. Eventually, Luke grew tired of the illicit arrangement, but Tracy's reluctance to make things official led to the pair breaking the affair off.
In 2017, Luke found himself attracted to Alya Nazir, who returned the favour. However, they were reluctant to get together due to their dissimilar lives. Eventually, they took a leap of faith and made things official. They moved in with Kate Connor and led a happy life together. Luke even stood up for Alya when she was subjected to racist abuse by two businessmen, Dale and Justin Parker, who she and business partner Aidan Connor were meeting with. Luke was also racially abused by the same two men, seeing red and retaliating by beating them up. The brothers began a hate campaign against the couple, breaking into and vandalising Webster's Auto Centre.
In January 2018, Luke attempted to track down Andy when it became clear to him that the latter was missing; everyone thought Andy had abandoned Steph and gone travelling. The reality was Andy had in fact died at the hands of his villainous landlord, Pat Phelan, who had previously blackmailed Andy for attempting to kill him - as Andy had correctly suspected that Phelan killed his surrogate father figure Michael Rodwell. Then on the day he married Eileen Grimshaw in 2017 last year, Phelan kidnapped Andy and locked him in an old, derelict house he was supposedly "working on". For many months Phelan visited to provide food and drink to keep Andy alive, before forcing him to kill his ex-business partner Vinny Ashford and then ultimately shooting Andy dead himself that October; Phelan then had the house set on fire to ensure the truth wouldn't come out. Luke's suspicions were raised when he saw a house made out of wire on Eileen's Street Cars desk, given to her by Phelan from his burnt-out house - just like ones Andy used to make. When Luke confronted Phelan and vowed to go to the police, Phelan decided to silence him for good. He picked up a rock and struck Luke on the head with it, but Luke managed to fight back before fleeing in his car. Phelan gave chase in his van, thus leading to a car chase that ended with Phelan forcing Luke to crash his car. Then Phelan got out of the car, took out his gun, and shot Luke before he could escape. Phelan then indirectly admits to killing Andy before telling Luke "you say hello from me"; Luke could only reflect on this before Phelan promptly shot the petrol tank in Luke's car, which exploded into a ball of flaming; killing Luke as a result.
Luke Britton was 28 years old when he died.
Personality
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Relationships
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Background information
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First and last lines
"Err... my life don't revolve around you, yer know. Though... I'd been 'ere a lot quicker if I'd known yer mate was 'ere." (First line to sister Steph)
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"I'm gonna talk to the police about this. Report Andy as a missing person. Tell 'em everything I know. Let them find out what you're hiding..." (Last line to Pat Phelan before the latter attacks and eventually murders him)
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