Billy Platt
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Billy Platt was a character in the tv soap opera Coronation Street who appeared briefly in June 2004.
He was the son of Sarah-Louise Platt and Todd Grimshaw. He was concieved in December of 2003 while his parents were in a relationship. At the time of his birth his mother was 17 and his grandmother Gail had wanted Sarah to have an abortion.
In the months prior to his birth, his father Todd met a man named Karl while working and after a period, a sexual relationship between the two began. Sarah-Lou was unaware and planned for a life with Todd, Billy and her daughter from a previous relationship, Bethany.
Todd confessed to Sarah-Lou on May 24th 2004 which led her to immediately end the relationship and to move back in with Gail. After several extremely stressful days in an already difficult pregnancy, Sarah-Lou went into Labor on June 1st 2004 while working at Roy's Rolls. She was rushed to hospital by Todd's mother Eileen in a taxi. After being examined by a Doctor, it is found that Sarah is suffering from heavy internal bleeding in the womb and after experiencing a massive haemorrhage, an emergency caesarian section was performed.
Billy Platt was born on June 1st 2004, 9 weeks premature. In the hours after his birth, his mother refused to see Billy because of the pain she felt from Billy being a reminder of Todd's betrayal but came around to it and visited her second baby just minutes before Billy died, on June 2nd 2004. Todd never saw his son alive.
Billy was buried and has been visited several times by his mother since his death.
