Tony Gordon Anthony " Tony " Gordon was a Scottish businessman and co - owner of Underworld between 2008 to 2010 . He was married to Carla Connor and was responsible for murdering her ex brother - in - law Liam Connor after finding out about an affair they had while engaged . After confessing to Carla , she had fled Weatherfield and Tony embarked on a relationship with Liam ' s widow Maria , even helping give birth to Liam ' s son , Liam Jr . They got engaged , but Tony suffered a heart attack and confessed to Roy Cropper , and attempted to kill him before handing himself into the police . Tony later perished when he escaped prison and burnt down Underworld . Tony was known to have evil tendencies when not getting what he wanted , and normally did anything to cover his acts , which almost led to murder on some occasions . He attempted to kill Jed Stone who discovered his deceit , and tried to murder Carla twice , once when she returned to Weatherfield after her time away to blackmail the factory out of him , and when he kidnapped her during the Underworld siege in 2010 , Tony also attempted to kill Roy Cropper with a kitchen knife , although in some instances he got others to help with his work , such as his henchman Jimmy Dockerson who killed Liam for him , and fellow cellmate Robbie Sloane , who Tony turned on and killed during the siege . Biography . 1971 - 2008 . Tony was born in 1971 and had a brother called Pat . Tony witnessed his father die of a heart attack , but did nothing to help and just left him to die , believing his mother was better off without him . Some years later , Tony met his first wife Lindsey but they got divorced in 2006 , although she believed Tony would come back to her . Tony arrived in Coronation Street as the owner of a clothing firm , giving a contract to Carla Connor and her brother - in - law Liam , owners of the underwear factory Underworld . However , he was more interested in Carla than the business . Tony was unpopular with the rest of the residents in Coronation Street when he commissioned development for flats in the area , and also killed a colony of bats . Liam was suspicious of Tony , and discovered he had an ex - wife called Lindsey . She told Liam that Tony was only really interested in money and mostly himself , but Tony just told Carla that his ex was " crazy " . Tony proposed to Carla in 2008 and she accepted , although she still had feelings for Liam , but he went on to marry hairdresser Maria Sutherland . Tony planned on expanding Underworld and offered to buy The Kabin off Rita Sullivan , she started to like the idea . Tony also tried to buy Websters ' Auto Centre garage , but Kevin Webster refused and took an instant dislike to Tony . He then hired his friend , another mechanic , Jimmy Dockerson to sabotage Kevin ' s business and steal his customers . Tony began to menace pensioner Jed Stone in August 2008 , and wanted him evicted from his home in order to redevelop the place . Jed refused however , and kept closing the door in Tony ' s face . However Tony returned one day and barged in , and the stress caused Jed to collapse with a heart attack . Tony dumped Jed ' s cat on the Street , and called an ambulance , although he was tempted before just to leave Jed to die . He got Jason Grimshaw to board up the house , although Jason was wary as there where still money about and food in the fridge . Tony told the paramedics that Jed was about to sign over the house . Jed was distraught by losing his cat and home . Tony had suspicions that Carla was having an affair with Liam , so got Rosie Webster to video them . His suspicions were proven when Rosie showed a video of them kissing . Tony decided to have Liam killed in revenge . In early October 2008 , Tony invited Liam and Maria to come with him and Carla for a weekend away . Tony took Liam to an underground cave and asked him to be his best man . Tony claimed he and his brother Pathad fallen out . Liam agreed to be Tony ' s best man at the wedding . On the night of 16th October 2008 , Tony hired his friend Jimmy to run Liam over on his stag night . Tony stole Liam ' s wallet and when they headed to a men ' s club , Liam thought he left his wallet back at the pub , so Tony convinced him to head back . When Liam stepped onto the road , Jimmy raced round the corner in his car and hit Liam , killing him on impact . Tony held Liam in his arms while the other men called an ambulance , and told him " the best man lost " . Tony dumped Liam ' s wallet in the canal later that night after taking money out of it . After the funeral , Carla decided to have a break and called off the wedding , before leaving for Los Angeles , much to Tony ' s annoyance . However , she later returned and they got married in December 2008 . Jed also returned to the Street when Emily Bishop gave him a room at her home . Jed began to blackmail Tony for money . When Maria suspected Tony had murdered Liam after seeing the video of Liam and Carla kissing , and discovering Tony knew about the affair , she tried to convince everyone he killed Liam . Jed teamed up with her and told Maria about Tony evicting him from his home . On Christmas Eve , Jed confronted Tony and after Tony accidentally told Jed about Liam ' s killer Jimmy , Jed threatened to go to the police , which resulted in Tony strangling him . Thinking he killed him , he stuffed Jed ' s body into a Christmas hamper , and returned the next day to discover he was still alive . Tony took Jed to Wigan , telling him never to return to Weatherfield . 2009 - 2010 . In January 2009 , Maria still tried to prove Tony was her husband ' s killer . When she looked for Tony in the empty factory , he confronted her . He then told Maria he murdered Jed Stone at Christmas , much to her disgust . She tried to tell everyone about his confession , but people thought she was still grieving and going crazy . After a failed attempt to tell the police , an upset and distraught Maria hit Tony with her car before crashing it . Tony was seriously hurt , but decided to stop Maria once and for all , and later took Jed back to Coronation Street and into the pub , making Maria look even crazier , which humiliated her . Carla however began to get suspicious of Tony when he saw him telling Jed never to return to Coronation Street again , or it will be the last thing he does . Carla followed Jed back to Wigan to confront him and discovered the marks on his neck . Tony tried to claim that they were marks when Jed tried to kill himself , but Carla was still suspicious and confronted Jimmy . When Jimmy failed to answer her questions , she knew that Tony must have had Liam killed . Tony locked her in the factory in February , and Tony confessed to the murder , which led to Carla managing to escape and flee to Los Angeles , leaving Tony behind crying in the rain . After a short relationship with Natasha Blakeman , Maria began to soften towards Tony when she saw him mourning at Liam ' s grave . They later became good friends with the previous events of her accusations completely forgotten about . Tony helped Maria deliver her and Liam ' s son , who she called Liam after her late husband . In late 2009 , Tony and Maria started a romantic relationship , and on 16 October 2009 , one year since Tony had Liam killed , he proposed to Maria at Liam ' s graveside . She happily accepted . However , Carla returned from America and told Tony that he had gone far enough , telling him to leave Weatherfield after signing his shares of Underworld over to her , and to never return . Tony hired Jimmy to kill Carla , but later changed his mind and raced over to his flat where Carla was waiting . However , Carla knocked Jimmy out with a candlestick . Tony fooled her into thinking she had killed Jimmy . Carla packed and left again , and Tony told a well and alive Jimmy to leave the area . When Maria went over to Cyprus to visit her parents with baby Liam , Tony decided to stay behind with Ozzy the dog to finish up some business and then head over in a few days . However , Tony suffered a heart attack when he left the factory and collapsed against the wall , and was later found by Roy Cropper . He was rushed to hospital where it was thought he wouldn ' t survive the night . Tony then cofessed to Roy about his involvement in Liam ' s death , before going into cardiac arrest and needing to be revived - Tony survived . Maria returned to Weatherfield and was grateful to Roy for helping Tony . Roy kept following Tony and told him he should go to the police and confess but Tony got fed up with Roy ' s interfering . Tony went round to Roy ' s Rolls one night to confront him . Tony threatened him and told him to keep away from him . A scared Roy and Hayley Cropper went to the police to report Tony ' s threat , which led to Tony being questioned by the police . However , he was released due to lack of evidence , and when Maria discovered what happened , she got scared and began to wonder if it was all really true . An angered and upset Tony felt he lost everything and headed to the canal at night where Roy was bat - watching and decided to murder him . Roy found Tony with a bloody knife ( Tony took it from the café earlier when hiding there , and accidently dug it into his hand when he heard an upset Maria talk to Hayley whilst discovering about Tony ) . Roy thought that he had hurt Hayley , and Tony smiled and made out that he did kill Hayley , which angered Roy who attacked him . Tony then threw Roy into the canal when discovering he couldn ' t swim . However , he changed his mind at the last minute and dived into the canal to save Roy and dragged him out . Tony then walked into the police station and confessed to murder . When Maria discovered Tony ' s secret , she was sickened and told him she wanted him to die . Tony had also given his friend Jimmy ' s name forward as the hitman , and Jimmy was later arrested . In November 2009 , Tony had his court hearing and was to be kept in custody until his trial on 4th January 2010 , and would not be granted remand . Carla had returned to Weatherfield and watched Tony get sent down . Maria had also left Weatherfield to start a new life in Ireland with Liam ' s parents , Barry and Helen Connor . Tony sent Carla a visiting order in December , and she decided to visit him to see what he wanted . He told her that he had hired Jimmy to kill her , and that she hadn ' t actually killed him . She called him a bastard , and Tony asked if Maria would ever forgive her , with Carla replying " Not a chance " . Carla then left the station , leaving a broken Tony behind . In May 2010 , Tony began to plan his escape from Highfield Prison along with his cellmate Robbie Sloane so he could get revenge on Carla and Roy , as he blamed them for his downfall . He bribed his cellmate with a lot of money for his part in it . Tony managed to get a sim card smuggled into the prison so he could contact Robbie from inside the jail when he got out . When Robbie was released , he began to keep an eye on Carla and Roy , and phoned Tony through a hidden phone and told him he would see him the next day . When Tony was having lunch in the prison lunch hall , he wound up a prisoner which led to him being punched and beaten . Tony then faked a heart attack and was rushed to hospital in an ambulance . It was however pulled over by Robbie in a black van , and he used a gun to get a policeman to release Tony . They then locked the paramedics and the police officer in the back , before heading off on a motorbike Robbie had . Tony arrived on the Street and lurked around the back alleyways , where he was spotted by Sunita Alahan . She thought he was mugged , but Tony slipped out the back when Sunita ' s husband Dev came round after hearing of Tony ' s escape . Robbie managed to take Carla and Roy ' s wife Hayley hostage , much to Tony ' s pleasure . After an argument over money and Robbie beginning to not trust Tony , Tony then shot Robbie dead . Maria had then arrived and Tony took her hostage , but she later escaped . Tony decided to release Hayley , as he wanted to die with Carla . He proceeded to set the factory on fire , and lit a match and set the place up . Carla managed to get untied , and shot Tony with his gun when he attempted to stop her . She escaped , and Tony decided he would rather die and walked back into the flames , and perished when the factory exploded . Personality . Tony was a control freak and always wanted to get what he wanted , and possessed a jealous streak . When he realised Carla had an affair with his rival Liam Connor , he went as far as to have Liam run over and killed . Tony didn ' t like people getting in his way and would go as far as almost killing just to get his own way . When Jed Stone attempted to blackmail Tony over Christmas 2008 , Tony went as far as to almost kill Jed . He has attempted to murder before - in 2009 he sent his henchman Jimmy Dockerson to kill his wife Carla when she blackmailed him to leave town or she would expose him being Liam ' s killer , and tried to kill Roy Cropper when he found out about Tony ' s dark secret . This hunger for revenge even led to Tony breaking out of jail and attempting to kill Carla and Hayley , but only ended up burning himself in the factory . Despite his murderous evil streak , Tony has shown ( on the outside anyway ) to have nicer traits and sometimes doesn ' t go along with the attempted murders ( although there was normally something in it for him ) . He let Jed leave Weatherfield and gave him a new flat , and saved Carla from being killed the first time , and even jumped in the canal and saved Roy Cropper . Tony showed a more caring side when looking after Maria and even helping her give birth to her baby boy Liam Jr . and appeared to show guilt for killing Liam . Even when planning on burning down Underworld , he released Hayley and only wanted to kill himself and Carla as he blamed her for ruining his life . Tony was a liar as well , and was able to stay calm in situations which is why he managed to get away with Liam ' s murder for so long . Even when he handed himself into the police , he admitted that if he had never done that , they would never have caught Liam ' s killer . Relationships . Family . The only family of Tony ' s to ever visit him on the Street was his brother Pat , who arrived as his best man for his wedding to Carla in December 2008 . However Tony never actually invited Pat , it was his fiancée Carla . Tony was worried about his arrival as he claimed to Liam Connor that he had fallen out with his brother , in order to get him to the stag night to kill him , and also didn ' t want Maria Connor , Liam ' s widow , to discover who Pat was . There seemed to be a problem for the two brothers in the past due to Pat having an affair with Tony ' s first wife Lindsey , many years before Tony ' s arrival on the street . Pat didn ' t seem too surprised that Tony had many enemies on the Street , including Kevin Webster , Jed Stone and Roy Cropper . Pat left the Street shortly after the wedding and subsequently disowned Tony when it was discovered that he murdered Liam Connor and was sent to prison . Tony ' s father died of a heart attack , which Tony witnessed , however failed to get help as he believed that he and his mother were better of without him . Carla Connor . Carla was one of the loves of Tony ' s life , and he also knew her late husband Paul Connor as they were friends at the golf course . Tony fell for Carla , and they began dating , much to the disapproval of Carla ' s ex - brother in law Liam , who loved Carla . When she accused him of being jealous of her new relationship , Liam immediately went and proposed to pregnant girlfriend Maria Sutherland . In March 2008 at a dinner that Tony set up at Carla ' s flat with Steve McDonald , Michelle Connor , Liam and Maria , Tony proposed to an embarrassed Carla in front of everyone . She however accepted , but he became wary and proposed to her the next day when they were alone and Tony was delighted when she still accepted . Later in the year , Tony bought Liam ' s shares of Underworld after Carla blackmailed Liam into doing it . Tony found out Carla was having an affair with Liam after Rosie Webster took a video of them kissing on her phone , which led to Tony having Liam bumped of on his stag night . A devastated Carla took a break away , which upset Tony as it wasn ' t what he planned . However she came back and they got married in December 2008 . But Carla later became suspicious of Tony when Maria began accusing him of murder and when elderly Jed Stone , who Tony evicted from his home and almost killed over Christmas , showed that he was scared of him . Tony then confessed to murdering Liam to Carla , and stated it was for her . However she fled Coronation Street for Los Angeles , leaving a broken Tony behind . In October 2009 after discovering Maria and Tony were in a relationship and engaged , Carla returned to blackmail Tony into selling his shares back , or she would tell everyone about him killing Liam . Tony then hired henchman Jimmy Dockerson ( the same man he got to bump of Liam ) to kill Carla . However , he changed his mind and disrupted Jimmy , who got hit over the head by Carla in self - defence . Tony then made out she killed Jimmy , causing her to flee once again . She returned when Tony confessed to murder a month later and was sent to prison , and she visited him once , telling him there would be no chance of Maria forgiving him . After planning revenge over the months he was in prison , Tony broke out with the aid of his cellmate Robbie , who took Carla hostage along with Hayley . After shooting his henchman dead over a disagreement with money , Tony proceeded to torch the place , but let Hayley go after Carla convinced him to . As he set fire to the factory , Carla broke free and got hold of Tony ' s gun and shot him . She managed to flee the factory , leaving her husband to perish in the explosion . Businesses . Tony had his own business known as " Gordon Catalogues " a clothing company and he was contracted with Underworld , although he was more interested in Carla Connor . In 2008 after beginning a relationship with Carla , he bought Liam Connor ' s shares , and Carla had blackmailed Liam to do it or she would tell his wife Maria about an affair they had . Tony was into property developing and was part of the Victoria Court apartments which where opened in August 2008 . He owned properties at other locations in Weatherfield , but had problems selling them due to the recession . He began evicting residents in nearby Nightingale Terrace ( but giving them money for the trouble ) so he could convert the properties into flats . One of the pensioners was Jed Stone , but Jed refused to move until a stroke put him in hospital . By October that year , the development still hadn ' t got off the ground . After Tony was jailed for Liam ' s murder in 2009 , his share of Underworld was later sold to Nick Tilsley . Quotes . " Carla . . . Pity it ' s not in happier times . " ( First line ) " Father , son , brother , roadkill ! Looks like the best man lost ! " ( To Liam after having him ran over ) " Oh feisty ! That ' s why I fell in love with you ! " ( Final line )