Marion Stowe Marion Stowe was the blinkered , difficult mother of Candice Stowe , the rebellious friend of Sarah Platt . She felt that Sarah was a bad influence on her daughter , completing missing the point that of the two girls , it was Candice who was much more the trouble - causer . Her dislike of Sarah came about when she discovered that the thirteen - year old was pregnant in March 2000 and refused to allow Candice to see her friend any more . A furious Gail went round to the Stowe ' s house to remonstrate with her but the front door was slammed in her face . After Sarah gave birth to Bethany , Mrs Stowe next made an appearance in the August when she gate - crashed the party held at 8 Coronation Street to celebrate the baby ' s christening , angrily shouting at Candice for associating with " that little tramp " against her orders and also insulting vicar Jessica Lundy for participating in what she called a " charade " , only to be told back that it was a pity that her brain wasn ' t as big as her mouth ! She physically dragged Candice from the house . The following July , Mrs Stowe demonstrated that the attitudes towards the morals of the Platt family had not changed when she reappeared in the Street to stop Candice going on a holiday camping trip with them , telling them that would only happen over her dead body . Again her daughter was dragged away . Mrs Stowe started to get an idea that it was her daughter who was a real source of trouble , and not Sarah , in the November . Two months earlier , Candice had got herself an evening job in a factory to earn money to buy expensive clothes and bullied Sarah into letting her copy her homework . Teacher Charlie Ramsden spotted the similarities between the submissions and eventually discovered that Candice was the copier and Sarah the willing supplier and warned Gail Platt . At the same time , Gail discovered bags of expensive shopping hidden in Sarah ' s room ( Candice not daring to have them at her house ) and when Sarah admitted that the items were her friends ' but wouldn ' t give an explanation for them , Gail summoned Mrs Stowe to confront the two girls . When Candice refused to help Sarah with the situation she had gotten her into and recriminations started to fly between the two families , Sarah admitted the truth and this time Candice was dragged out of the Platt house to explain herself and not to get her away from Sarah ' s " influence " . Almost two years later , in the summer of 2003 , it was the actions of Mrs Stowe that caused a breach between her and her daughter when she took up with a new boyfriend named Gerry Burton . It wasn ' t long before he came on to the daughter as well , touching her in a suggestive way and entering her bedroom at night . Candice told her mother what was going on but wasn ' t believed . Candice stayed overnight at her then place of work , Audrey Roberts ' s Hair Salon . The next day , Gerry turned up at the Salon , ostensibly worried about her whereabouts but in reality trapping the young girl alone . Audrey entered the premises in the nick of time and sent the man packing with threats of the police and arranged for Candice to live as a lodger in the Salon flat . Mrs Stowe came to the Salon herself to demand her daughter come home and told her that her stories about Gerry , who she described as the best thing ever to happen to her , were all lies . Candice refused to return and her selfish mother showed that she was prepared for that answer , having brought with a bag full of her daughter ' s belongings which she dumped at her feet . The two rarely met again . List of appearances . 2000 2001 2003