Tyrone Dobbs Tyrone Sylvester Dobbs is the son of Darren and Jackie Dobbs who first appeared when his mother came to stay with Deirdre Rachid , who had been her cellmate in Redford Prison . Tyrone was illiterate and had been in minor trouble with the police . Tyrone was first employed as a supermarket trolley collector by Curly Watts and given a place to stay , until he accidentally pushed a trolley into the area manager ' s new car . He trained as an apprentice mechanic under Kevin Webster at Coronation Street Garage , after being found sleeping rough there after his mother had been sent back to prison . He later moved into Jack and Vera Duckworth ' s bed and breakfast establishment , and adopted a greyhound , Monica , which had strayed into the garage . Jack and Vera virtually adopted Tyrone , who has turned out to be more loyal than their own son , Terry . Tyrone became engaged to Maria Sutherland , the daughter of a dog breeder whom he met when trying to find a partner for Monica . Fiz Brown came between Maria and Tyrone . Although they eventually resumed their relationship and even became engaged , they eventually split up after Tyrone decided that they were simply not well suited to being together . Tyrone then started in a serious relationship with Molly Compton , who worked at Sutherland ' s Kennels . Molly ' s aunt , Pam Hobsworth came to visit with them often and encouraged Tyrone to propose to Molly - Jack even gave him Vera ' s engagement ring . A few days later , Pam suggested Tyrone put a ring in a decorative egg which also had a voice recorder . When Tyrone opened the egg at the Rovers , instead of a recording asking Molly to marry him , the voice was Kirk Sutherland asking how it worked . Tyrone ran out in shame . Jack and Kirk followed , and Jack told him the moments that didn ' t go as planned were often happier than the moments which did . Tyrone decided to try again , and returned to find a burger van decorated in Christmas lights and with a table in front . When Tyrone opened the egg to propose , Molly opened an egg of her own , with a recording of her saying , " Of course , you great nana . " The following month , Tyrone decided to visit his mum Jackie and let her meet Molly . Everything went fine until they found out Jackie was still £1 , 000 in debt and owed his dad ' s friend money . Tyrone decided to help , as Jackie had no money to spare , much to Molly ' s despair as the money was their wedding savings . Tyrone subsequently told Jackie that she wasn ' t invited to the wedding . Back at the garage , Tyrone ' s job was in jeopardy with Tony Gordon ' s attempts to sabotage Kevin ' s business . As a result of this , Tyrone decided to earn some extra cash by volunteering to test out products for a medical research company . Kevin then asked him to buy half the business , Tyrone later agreed and they became now co - owners so the garage could stay open for business . Tyrone ' s stag night on 11th January 2009 was attended by Jack , Kirk , Ashley , Dev , Jason and Kevin , although Tyrone was roped into selling merchandise for Pam during the night . Tyrone and Molly were married on 12th January 2009 , after Tyrone had been arrested and handcuffed by Dave Deakin in The Flying Horse , en route to the wedding . He arrived , albeit late , at the church but fainted soon after exchanging vows . He later found out that the police officer who had ' arrested ' him was none other than Molly ' s Auntie Pam ' s ex , who had Jack , Kirk and Tyrone fooled into believing he was a real police officer . Nonetheless , the trio paid up to ' release ' Tyrone under the pretext that Tyrone would have to hand himself in at a police station after the wedding ceremony . Molly and Tyrone were happy for a while , and initially planned to move out of No . 9 , but when Jack and Vera decided to move to Blackpool , they decided to buy it . When Vera died suddenly of heart failure in January 2008 , Tyrone was devastated . Jack decided to go ahead with the sale , and he remained with the couple as lodger . Quotes . " Mum ! " ( First line )