Toyah Battersby Toyah Laverne Battersby ( née Lee ) is the daughter of Janice Battersby , born as the result of a teenage fling with Ronnie Clegg . Toyah was raised by Janice and her stepfather Les Battersby who had a similar aged daughter , Leanne . The Battersby family moved to Coronation Street in July 1997 . Toyah left the street in February 2003 after being betrayed by her boyfriend , John Arnley , and her best friend , Maria Sutherland . John and Maria slept together behind Toyah ' s back and Maria got pregnant but aborted the baby . Toyah eventually found out and left the Street then headed for London with her old flame , Spider Nugent , in his Juice Van . Toyah married Toby Chapman in 2011 but later embarked on an affair with Leanne ' s ex - husband Peter Barlow in mid - 2016 . She returned to Weatherfield later that year after leaving Toby . Biography . 1997 - 2003 . Toyah first appeared , along with mother Janice , stepfather Les , and stepsister Leanne , in 1997 . Toyah was a fairly typical schoolgirl who was struggling with the normal ups and downs of teenage life . She soon developed a crush on her neighbour , Spider , who introduced her to environmentalism , as well as the occasional cannabis joint . It was Spider who helped Toyah save Theresa the turkey from the Battersbys ' dinner table at Christmas . Toyah became very enthusiastic about the " eco - warrior " lifestyle ; so much so that she poured anti - freeze all over the freezers in a grocery store while protesting the sale of prawns in the said shop . Toyah and Spider eventually became a couple after spending the night together on the Red Rec while watching the solar eclipse ( amongst other activities ) . They lived together at Emily Bishop ' s house for a short while , but she put them out after they disobeyed the rules regarding sex in the house . They pitched a tent on the Red Rec to live in but unsurprisingly , this did not last long . They wound up living in Linda Sykes ' s old bedsit at Flat 3 , 6 Arnica Street , and for a while , Spider paid the rent with the money he was earning at the benefits office . When Spider left his job on principle , he decided to take a trip to India . Toyah couldn ' t face going that far away and Spider left without her . The night before Easter Sunday in 2001 , Toyah was having a night out with mechanic Sam Kingston . While on her way home alone , Toyah was raped and left for dead in the ginnel , only to be discovered the next morning by Jason Grimshaw , out for an early morning run . Toyah was forced to tell her mother what had happened and relive the event while relating her story to the police . Matters were complicated because Toyah was only semi - conscious at the time of the attack , and therefore did not know who her attacker was . After much finger - pointing at various male residents of Coronation Street , it was discovered on 30th April 2001 , that Toyah ' s rapist was Phil Simmonds , a man she had befriended after meeting through Spider . Phil had come over to her house to comfort her after the ordeal but when he called her name while she was in the kitchen , Toyah had a flashback and realised that her attacker was sitting in her living room . Toyah tried to pretend that everything was alright , but Phil realised that she had remembered what he ' d done to her and grabbed her around the throat . Toyah was saved when Peter Barlow ( who had himself been accused of the crime , but was ruled out by DNA evidence ) heard her screams and broke down the door . Phil was eventually sent to prison , but Toyah was traumatised by everything that had happened to her . After the ordeal , Toyah returned to college and moved in with Fiz Brown and Maria Sutherland in the flat above the hairdressers ' and tried to move on with her life . After a brief fling with Andy McDonald , she started dating one of her former professors , John Arnley , in 2002 . Toyah left him after discovering that her best friend Maria had had a one - night stand with John in January 2003 , which resulted in her falling pregnant by him . Despite the fact that Maria had an abortion , Toyah couldn ' t handle John ' s infidelity and left for a new life in Sheffield , before reconciling with her ex - boyfriend Spider Nugent and moving to London with him , as he had started his own juice company there . 2003 - 2016 . Since her departure , Toyah has been mentioned numerous times by the Street ' s residents , mainly by Janice and Leanne . In October 2013 , Leanne went to stay with Toyah for a week or so after discovering her husband Nick ' s infidelity . On the day of Tina McIntyre ' s funeral in June 2014 , Leanne was called away to attend to Janice at Toyah ' s flat in Liverpool . While looking after the property , Janice had injured herself trying to climb through a window after locking herself out . 2016 - . In mid - 2016 Toyah began having an affair with Leanne ' s ex - husband Peter Barlow after the pair had met at a bar . The pair of them continued to correspond and when Peter returned to the street in November he didn ' t disclose the relationship . Toyah returned to the street herself the following month on Christmas Day , having left Toby . When Leanne asked what happened , Toyah claimed that Toby got angry which forced her to flee . Toyah and Leanne witnessed a fight between Peter and Nick in the street , as the latter accused Peter of still fancying Leanne . In order not to disclose his secret with Toyah , Peter claimed he still cared for Leanne . Later that evening , Toyah met Peter at a hotel and they slept together . Quotes . " Dad . . . ? Happy birthday ! " ( First line )