Terry Duckworth Terence Edgar " Terry " Duckworth is the son of the late Jack and Vera Duckworth . Terry was born in June 1964 and moved to Coronation Street with his parents in 1983 after finishing a stint in the Parachute Regiment . Like his dad , Terry was a Jack the Lad , always up for a good get - rich - quick scheme . He went into business with Curly Watts before leaving Weatherfield with a married woman in 1987 . After leaving the Street , Terry ' s roguish streak turned into a sinister , avaricious edge . Jack quickly cottoned on to the fact that Terry was a bad ' un but Vera stood by her son until the bitter end . Terry usually appeared in the Street when he thought he could get money out of Jack and Vera . Among his more despicable deeds were selling his son Tommy to his late wife Lisa ' s parents , forcibly removing him from Jack and Vera ' s care , selling Vera a dodgy car which resulted in Judy Mallett suffering a fatal embolism , and doing a runner with money Jack paid him to donate a kidney to his son Paul Clayton ( leaving Vera to face the dangerous operation herself . ) Terry fathered three sons by three different women . Paul Clayton was the result of a brief relationship with the neighbour ' s daughter Andrea , but she had broken up with Terry before either of them knew she was pregnant . He still liked her and tried very hard to be involved but she shut him out so he moved away . Brad Armstrong was the result of a fling , but he shirked the responsibility of actually raising him ( although undoubtedly both were better off without him ) . As of 2008 , he ran a mobile phone business and lived with his partner . He visited the Street for Vera ' s funeral in 2008 but failed to attend Jack ' s funeral two years later , considering it " too far " to travel ; Jack didn ' t want Terry at the funeral anyway . In 2012 , he began work on Se7enth Hea7en , a lap dancing club on Viaduct Street , and was shocked to be reunited with his son Tommy . Upon learning that Tommy had come into money , Terry won him round and hired him to work on the club . Biography . 1964 - 1988 : Earlier life . Terry moved to Coronation Street with his parents Jack and Vera in 1983 . He worked in an abattoir initially , and later went into business doing removals and house clearances with his friend Curly Watts . Terry fled the Street in 1987 with the wife of an old army mate , after their affair had been discovered , however he returned a year later needing more cash , and pawned a watch to Alec Gilroy and ended up getting involved in an argument with Don Brennan as he owed him cash for a taxi fare , which Jack later paid . 1992 - 2002 : Sinister turn . Terry returned to the Street in 1992 with his new pregnant girlfriend Lisa Horton , but ended up being banged up in prison after committing GBH and Lisa told his parents about him being sent down . Terry later married Lisa , but used this as an excuse to get out of prison and made a runner , but was eventually recaptured a few days later and was sent back to prison . Lisa had given birth to his son Tommy in September , but was later hit by a car outside the Rovers the following year . Jack and Vera had later started to look after Tommy . When Terry got out of prison in December he took his son Tommy and sold him to Lisa ' s parents , Jeff and Doreen Horton , stating that Jack and Vera weren ' t able to take care of Tommy . Terry tried to make up an excuse saying it wasn ' t about the money , but Jack saw right through Terry and punched him . Terry quickly left the Street once again . He however returned to the Street a couple of years later with Tommy as Lisa ' s parents failed to pay the money in order to keep him . Upon his was return , he had a one - night stand with Tricia Armstrong which resulted in pregnancy . He tried to play the model son with his parents as he wanted to make easy cash as they were now running the Rovers , however the pub was absorbing a lot of their profits leaving Jack and Vera with little . Terry later re - sold his son back to the Hortons , which led to Vera writing Terry out of her will and Jack refusing to even acknowledge his existence . Terry left the Street once again . In April 1997 , he made another brief visit to visit Tricia who gave birth to their son Brad , although he could barely remember her name . Tricia was happy for him to be there , but when she later realised that Terry could never become a father to Brad , she left the Street with her boyfriend Ray Thorpe . Terry tried to cheat his parents once again by trying to steal the takings they earned from the Rovers . When Jack gave Terry an envelope full of money to take to the bank , Terry decided to do a runner with the cash , however he later found out that the envelope wasn ' t full of money , but rather just cut up newspaper . He returned to the pub angry at his father , but Jack revealed that he knew that Terry would make a run with the money , so decided to trick him . Feeling disgraced , Terry left the Street once again . He turned up once again in 1999 where he sold Vera a posh car , however it turned out to be a death trap which resulted in the death of Judy Mallett . When he turned up again at Christmas that year , he was punched by Judy ' s widowed husband Gary for causing her death . Jack told his son how much misery he caused everyone and never to darken their doorstep again , and Vera finally stood up to her son telling him how evil he was , and threw him out . Terry hated the fact that Tyrone Dobbs moved into Jack and Vera ' s and became a second son to them . He turned up in November 2000 when his son Paul Clayton needed a kidney transplant , and Terry was a correct match . Terry agreed to giving the transplant if Jack gave him money . However when he got the money , Terry took it and fled leaving his mother to donate her kidney instead , which nearly resulted in her death , but managed to save Paul ' s life . Terry later turned up at the hospital unnoticed by his parents to check if his parents were alright , before disappearing once more . In October 2001 , Terry ended up in prison once again as he was framed for murder by a policeman for sleeping with his wife . Jack decided to help his son out as he realised he was telling the truth , and Terry was released from prison in January 2002 . He made his peace with his parents before leaving again . Sometime later he moved to Wolverhampton and went into mobile phone sales . 2002 - 2012 : Later years . When his mother Vera passed away in January 2008 , Terry returned for her funeral . He failed to recognise his son Paul and was just mostly there to make sure Jack didn ' t expect him to move in with him . Terry told his dad not to sell his house to Tyrone and his fiancée Molly Compton as he should keep it in the family . He also told his son Paul that he wouldn ' t be back until Jack dies and then left . When his father passed away nearly three years later , Terry was contacted by Tyrone . However , he made up an excuse that it was " too far away " to attend funeral . Although Tyrone was disgusted , he knew that Jack didn ' t really want Terry at the funeral anyway . In 2012 , he arrived back in Weatherfield to set up Se7enth Hea7en , a lap - dancing club on Viaduct Street . He had thumped Tommy Duckworth who had parked his van outside his premises , not knowing it was his son who he had sold many years previously until Tyrone confirmed it . However , Terry still didn ' t want anything to do with Tommy , and was set on concentrating on his business . After finding out that Tommy came into money and had inherited £12 , 000 from his granddad Jeff Horton , Terry made out he wanted to get to know him and won Tommy ' s trust . He then offered Tommy a job working for him , which Tommy accepted . When the residents discovered he was setting up a lap - dancing club after a stripper named Cherry performed her audition routine in the Rovers , they were disgusted and didn ' t want it . Some went into Terry ' s premises to protest and refused to come out delaying his work , but he later managed to get them removed . When Tyrone ' s policewoman girlfriend Kirsty Soames suspected Terry of buying round Councillor Charles Peake - as Terry couldn ' t just set up a club without the residents opinion - she and Tyrone went to Weatherfield Town Hall to try and look through his office and later discovered he had taken a bribe from Terry , and had the councillor arrested for his actions . Terry was angry and distraught . It later turned out that he owed money to loan shark Rick Neelan and planned on leaving the Street . Tommy gave Rick his inheritance , but Terry still owed him money . Terry then plotted to have Se7enth Hea7en burnt down to claim insurance money , and wanted Tommy to do it while he caused a distraction in the pub . Tommy was close to doing it , but his girlfriend Tina McIntyre stopped him . Tommy later left , and Terry arrived and was angry that Tina had interfered . When he planned to burn the place down himself , Tina threatened to call the police , and when Terry attempted to stop her she fell and hit her head and put her in hospital . Terry told Tommy that Rick had attacked her , and persuaded him to get Tyrone to lend Jack ' s money to Tommy to pay off the debt , which Tyrone did . Terry needed a quick escape , and while at the hospital claimed Rick was waiting for him and Tommy handed over the money . Terry headed back to the flat and started to pack , then Tommy turned up after finding out Terry put Tina in hospital after she revealed it after waking up . Tommy then gave Terry a choice , stay to show he wants a relationship with him , or leave with the money . Terry chose the money , and wanted to flee . He told Tommy he was glad he never grew up like him , and left the Street with the money , leaving Tommy to deal with Rick . Other information . In December 2000 , when Vera believed she was going to die after donating her kidney instead of Terry , so confessed to Jack that he may not be the father to Terry as she had an affair with another man who could possibly be Terry ' s father . However Jack later told Curly Watts that he knew about the affair and gave her lover a battering , and also knew Terry must be his son due to the similarities between them both . Quotes . " Where does he live ? " ( First line , to mother Vera ) " Ain ' t that the truth ? See you kidda ! " ( Final line , to son Tommy )