David Platt David Daniel Platt ( né Tilsley ) is the son of Martin Platt and Gail Rodwell and half - brother of Nick Tilsley , Sarah Platt and a girl fathered by Martin and his partner Robyn . He is also the widowed husband of Kylie , stepfather of Max Turner and father of Lily Platt . Born in December 1990 , in later years he became troubled , especially after almost being murdered by stepfather Richard Hillman and his dad Martin starting a new family with Robyn in Liverpool in 2005 . David tormented his family by sending them cards from Richard and tried to ruin Sarah ' s wedding by faking a suicide attempt . He later began a relationship with his first ever girlfriend Tina McIntyre in 2008 , but used her to lie for him when he pushed Gail down the stairs after Tina aborted his child . When Gail refused to punish him , David went on a wrecking spree in the Street and got arrested for criminal damage and assaulting a police officer . When he was released from prison he reconciled with Tina but she left him when he tried to get Gary Windass sent down for beating him up , when David had started the fight and told Tina to lie for him in court . In 2010 , David stood by Gail when she was sent to prison awaiting trial , accused of killing Joe McIntyre , who drowned trying to fake his death . David became more protective of his family and stood to inherit Audrey Roberts ' s salon as she signed it over to him in 2011 . Also that year , he married Kylie Turner , much to Gail ' s disapproval , and with her came stepson Max . David is currently living with stepson Max , daughter Lily and mother Gail . David was widowed in 2016 when Kylie died after being stabbed by Clayton Hibbs . Biography . 1990 - 2003 : Early Years and Richard Hillman . David is the son of Martin Platt and Gail Tilsley , born on Christmas Day 1990 weighing 8lb . He was the result of an unplanned pregnancy after Gail had a relationship with his much younger father . Gail actually planned on having David aborted , but Martin stopped her from making the decision as he convinced her he was ready to be a father . A year later , his parents got married . However in 2000 , they divorced after Martin had an affair with Rebecca Hopkins , a nurse at Weatherfield General where they both worked . David originally believed his sister Sarah to be the reason for the break - up , as she had recently given birth at the age of 13 , which had put a strain on the family . In 2001 , Gail set her eyes on financial advisor Richard Hillman , whom David wasn ' t very keen on , calling him " Trickie Dickie " . In February 2003 , Richard was discovered to be a murderer after killing three people , including two neighbours , and attempting to kill David ' s gran Audrey Roberts and neighbour Emily Bishop . When Richard returned to the Street a couple of weeks later , he kidnapped David along with Sarah , niece Bethany and mother Gail , who were bound and gagged in the car in the garage where Hillman intended to gas them all and himself in a suicide pact . However Martin , along with Kevin Webster and Tommy Harris , burst the doors of the garage open to save them , only for Richard to drive off with them in the car , and driving it into Weatherfield Canal . David along with his family managed to escape with the help of Martin , Tommy and Kevin who gave pursuit . Richard however , drowned . This event traumatised David and had a lasting effect on him . 2004 - 2007 : Tormenting the Platts . David made life hell for his mother Gail over a number of years . He was upset when his father was going to leave Weatherfield with new girlfriend in 2005 and refused to speak with him , but eventually made up with Martin before he departed for Liverpool . David still decided to keep in touch with him and visit on a regular basis . David wasn ' t happy when Gail started going out with Phil Nail , a reflexologist at Rosamund Street Medical Centre , and began a hate campaign against their relationship . In January 2006 when Gail was out , David started hatching a plan to break the couple up , however this provoked a violent reaction in Phil who grabbed David and shoved him up against the wall , although Phil put David down when he eventually saw sense . David told Gail about the attack , only for Phil to lie his way out of it , and Gail slapped David for " lying " . In David ' s cruellest trick yet , he began sending his family cards , from his deceased serial killer stepfather Richard . He first sent a card on Sarah ' s birthday , signed " Richard " . In March , Phil was under suspicion by Gail , and during dinner , Phil tried to protest his innocence , but in rage threw David across the table . Gail ordered Phil out of the house for hitting David . However David continued to send the Hillman Cards to scare his family , leading Gail to suspect her own son as a subject . In May , she told David that Richard ' s birthday was coming up and gave him the date . David then wrote out a card by " Richard " saying that he couldn ' t make it for his birthday , and David fell right into Gail ' s trap . She then confronted him and told him that Richard ' s birthday was really in December . David was shocked at getting caught and Gail was disgusted with him . He claimed it was a sick joke that got out of hand . Sarah and Audrey were furious with David , and Gail considered handing him over to police but later dropped the charges when she reasoned it was her fault for introducing Richard into his life . David got himself a job at the Builder ' s Yard working for Bill Webster , however was sacked for leaving Sarah ' s boyfriend Jason Grimshaw , on a roof when taking away the ladder . He was given a second chance , but got sacked again when he destroyed building materials . He then got a job at Audrey ' s salon and formed a crush on hairdresser Maria Sutherland but discovered that she was having a secret relationship with Charlie Stubbs , who was also going out with Tracy Barlow at the time . When David attempted to blackmail Charlie about the affair , Charlie bundled David into the back of a van and threatened him to keep quiet about it , however they were disturbed by Liam Connor . Charlie then lured David to his flat by texting David using Maria ' s phone . Charlie ran a bath and began dunking a terrified David under the water , but were interrupted by Maria who walked in . David then made a run for it while Maria , horrified , immediately told Tracy about the affair . When Tracy murdered Charlie in January 2007 claiming it was self - defence , David came forward as an eye - witness much to Tracy ' s surprise . Knowing he was lying , she confronted him and he told her that he was willing to back her up in court on the condition she would sleep with him . Desperate to avoid prison , Tracy agreed . However , upon taking the stand , David ' s plan backfired when the prosecution saw right through his lies and tore his testimony to shreds . Tracy told David that she ' d never had any intention of sleeping with him , and was later found guilty and sent down for fifteen years in April 2007 . During one of his GCSE exams at Weatherfield High , David set fire to his exam paper , leading to him being kicked out of school , although he did get an " A * " in the only exam he completed . In September 2007 , David offered to keep hold of Ecstasy tablets for his friend and neighbour Darryl Morton , as they belonged to a friend of his . David was also looking after his niece Bethany as she was sent home after a gas leak at Bessie Street School . He hid the tablets in one of her dolls , and when checking up on her to see how she was doing , he realised she had taken one . David panicked and got her to swallow salted water in order to bring the tablet back up , but this made the situation worse . When Sarah arrived back , David insisted Bethany wasn ' t feeling well , and when she began fitting , an ambulance was called , but David was too scared to reveal about the tablet . It was only in hospital when Bethany was in critical condition , that David confessed to Jason , who knew that David may have had something to do with it . This caused him to be disowned by his entire family , especially his mother Gail , who later threw him out of the house . Audrey , despite also being furious with her grandson , refused to see David thrown out on the streets and took him in with the intention of drilling some discipline into him . When David learned from Sarah that he wouldn ' t be invited to her wedding to Jason , he vowed that there wouldn ' t be a wedding . He later loosened the bolts of the scaffolding at the Builder ' s Yard , which caused Jason to fall and injure himself , although he was later discharged from hospital . On the day of the wedding , David left a suicide note for Gail , however unknown to him , Sarah found it first and ripped it up , knowing that he was only lying . When he saw everyone leaving for the church , David was furious , believing that Gail had seen the note yet had chosen to ignore it . He then took his car and went down to the canal where Richard tried to kill them . After leaving a message on Gail ' s phone telling her about him killing himself , he played the song " You and Me " ( the same song Richard played when trying to kill them ) , and then drove his car into the water , which was noticed by a passer - by . However , he survived and managed to escape , but caused panic for his mother Gail and angered Sarah after ruining her wedding . He later turned up unharmed , but drenched , at the house much to the relief of his mother . He later confronted Sarah and revealed that he never intended to kill himself , only to ruin her wedding , but Gail still believed it was a suicide attempt . David couldn ' t be happier , as not only did he have Gail back on side but he had also caused a rift between her and Sarah as she had thrown away his suicide note . Sometime later , David was offered a job in Milan by his uncle Stephen Reid . This angered Sarah because of everything David had done , and she planted Ecstasy on him to make it look like he had been doing drugs . When the Ecstasy was found , David naturally protested his innocence however no - one believed him and Stephen withdrew the job offer , instead giving it to Sarah . However she left for Italy on her own with Bethany after telling Jason about planting the drugs , who revealed everything to Gail and David . Gail apologised to David for not believing him . 2008 : First girlfriend . In January 2008 , David began dating Tina McIntyre after she accidentally knocked coffee over him following an argument with Gail at the medical centre . They quickly started sleeping with each other , which shocked Gail , although she and Tina become close . In March , when Tina found out she was pregnant , she consulted Gail about it , who supported her and was there for Tina when she went to abort David ' s baby . When David found out about this and the fact that Gail knew about it , he got into a furious argument with her and ended up pushing his mother down the stairs . Desperate to avoid prison , David persuaded Tina to give him an alibi . She agreed , but dumped him . Heartbroken , David realised the misery he was piling on his family and set about smashing the Street ' s windows with a pole as well as assaulting Ken Barlow and a policewoman , getting himself arrested . In court , David was sent down for four months ( which David was happy about , knowing he needed to pay for his previous actions ) . While in Larchfield Young Offenders Institute , he struck up a friendship with his cell mate , Graeme Proctor who was in for arson . 2008 - 2010 : Feud with the Windass family . After being released from the young offenders David began to pull himself together after resuming his relationship with Tina . He began working with her father Joe who was a kitchen fitter . In November 2008 they fitted a kitchen for the Windass family , but they refused to pay up for the kitchen . David later went round and smashed up their kitchen . This caused them to dispatch Gary and Len Windass to tear up Gail ' s kitchen in revenge . In December the family conveniently moved next door to 6 Coronation Street after the Mortons had moved out . Anna Windass didn ' t want further arguing and met up with David and family in the Rovers to straighten things out , however he refused to shake hands with son Gary . The Windass family later joined the Platts for Christmas as a peace offering , however David got fed up with Gary flirting and bothering Tina and kicked off at him . This led to Joe angrily flying off the handle and throwing them out , which shocked everyone . In January 2009 Gary continued to bother and wind up David , especially when he discovered his past misdeeds . This later led to David hitting Gary which sparked a fight leading to David being badly beaten up . Gary was arrested , and David asked Tina to lie to the police that Gary threw the first punch , with the hope of him being locked up . However during the trial - with persuasion from Joe - Tina told the court the truth and Gary was released with a caution . Tina later dumped David after being fed up with lying for him and his trouble . David began to take a dislike to Joe and was scared Tina would end up with Gary . In June 2009 , David noticed Gary was having trouble with finding work , and offered to rob a house with him . David picked grandmother Audrey ' s house - 5 Grasmere Drive - as Gary was unaware she resided there and he planned to set Gary up for robbery . David emptied the property of photographs and returned to No . 8 to watch TV with Joe leaving Gary to rob the place and with Graeme Proctor keeping watch . However David ' s grandfather Ted Page arrived to house - sit , and was knocked over by Gary trying to escape and later ended up in hospital due to a heart attack . Gary was sentenced to two months in prison , and even though the Platts discovered David had set the whole thing up , they didn ' t bother handing him over to the police . During the summer period David began tormenting Joe over his painkiller addiction and blackmailed him to convince Tina to take him back , however Joe saw David as being crazy as Tina was no longer interested . The torment ended however as Joe ' s addiction was revealed when he attempted to rob the medical centre . In February 2010 , shortly after Gail ' s wedding to Joe , she summoned David up to the Lake District when Joe had gone ' missing ' the night before and he helped her get his boat back to Coronation Street . However Joe had actually gone to fake his death for insurance when being bothered by a loan shark called Rick Neelan but unknown to Gail and everyone , he ' d died for real . A couple of weeks later his body was discovered bringing much shock to the family . Gail was imprisoned awaiting trial after being accused of killing Joe . Over the next few months David began to try and prove Gail ' s innocence and travelled up to the Lake District with Graeme to get answers but were later warned off by the police for trying to tamper with witnesses . Gail was eventually found not guilty regardless , although her cellmate Tracy Barlow tried to lie to the courts that Gail made a confession but they saw through her . Gail was released and reunited with David and the family . 2011 - 2012 : New Life With Kylie . In October 2010 , David , following a fight with Graeme over Tina , stole his gran ' s car and later ran Graeme over . Graeme was taken to hospital severely injured and Tina told the police that David did it on purpose . He was arrested under suspicion of attempted murder . David stated that he didn ' t remember running over Graeme and that he was innocent but no - one , not even his own mother , believed him . Later , David was waiting to go up against the jury when he collapsed . He was taken to hospital and the doctor discussed the possibility of David having epilepsy . This explained how , if he did have epilepsy , he wouldn ' t remember running over Graeme as he would have been unconscious at the time . In November , David was diagnosed with epilepsy and the court case was dropped . In Decemeber , David slept with Tracy Barlow . She later used it against his mother Gail and revealed it to her , and also that she had also slept with Nick . David became a suspect when Tracy had been attacked in the back yard of No . 1 . Her attacker was later revealed to be Claire Peacock . In 2011 , while on holiday in Tenerife , David met Kylie Turner , the half - sister of street resident Becky McDonald . They got engaged and when David got home , he announced the engagement to his mum , but called his new fiancée " Candy " to ensure it was kept secret until she arrived . Kylie later turned up in the Street and David introduced her to his mother , but to the shock of Gail . David then fought to take custody of Kylie ' s son Max but ended up in a war with Becky and her husband Steve , with Kylie trying to avoid it . David insisted that Steve and Becky weren ' t fit to look after Max , proving this when he saved the child from being run over . Eventually , Kylie was interviewed by Social Services and lied to them . Steve then revealed the truth - that Kylie sold Max to the McDonalds . While David was appalled and wished that Kylie had told him , he decided not to focus on it especially as it now gave them a trump card over Becky . When Tina threw Graeme and Xin Chiang out of her flat , David offered them a place at Gail ' s house . The pair got married and left for London , David and Graeme bid each other farewell . Despite Gail ' s misgivings , David and Kylie got married in April and Gail started to slowly warm towards her new daughter - in - law . With her help , they convinced Social Services they could provide Max ( who was quickly removed from Becky ' s care once the deal with Kylie was revealed to them ) with a stable home and were awarded custody and David and Max grow close . All went well for David and Kylie until the lead - up to Christmas 2012 , when David decided that it was time for him and Kylie to have a baby . Kylie wasn ' t interested in having another child at that time , wishing to focus on her new job at Nick ' s Bistro . As a result , the two had bitter rows and David ' s drunken cruel words about her former stripper career drove her into bed with David ' s brother Nick on Christmas night . With Nick having jilted his bride - to - be Leanne Barlow that very day , the pair immediately regretted their actions and Kylie quickly made up with a remorseful David , but was horrified when she found out that she was pregnant and unsure which of them was the father . Kylie decided to have an abortion to end the issue there and then , but David found the pregnancy test in the bin and rushed to the clinic to stop her . Under pressure from David ' s pleading , she reluctantly decided to go ahead with the pregnancy despite the uncertainty of the baby ' s paternity . As the months passed , David started working more and more in order to help provide for his family as well as give Kylie a break and was delighted to find out she was expecting a girl . However the long hours took their toll and , while taking Max and Joseph Brown to the park , his epilepsy flared up and he suffered an attack . However , as he realised what was about to happen and had his mobile phone out to call for help , Max rang Nick and David was taken to hospital where he quickly recovered . 2013 : " Evil David " returns . In June 2013 , David began to suspect that Gail and Kylie were keeping a secret from him ( although he was right , as Gail had by this point found out about Nick and Kylie ' s night together ) not knowing they were booking a surprise break for him and his wife . Coming down the stairs one afternoon , he overheard the two discussing what happened and learned everything about Nick and Kylie . Devastated , David briefly considered suicide and stood near the edge of a Cheshire hillside until Max rang him , snapping David out of it . He chose to direct his rage at Nick , not blaming Kylie for what happened , deciding to play a long game and set about trying to ruin his life . David ' s attacks included smashing up Nick ' s flat and watering down the spirits at Nick ' s Bistro , leading to a police investigation . David ' s games to ruin Nick ' s life came to an end when Nick twigged that David was behind the hate campaign . In August Nick lured David away from Coronation Street making up a story they were going to sample some drinks . Nick then told David he was aware of him leading the hate campaign , and confessed that he indeed had an affair with Kylie . Nick offered to drive them back to Coronation Street and he would confess to the affair , if David confessed to trying to ruin Nick ' s life . David was worried about this as he feared Kylie would leave him if she found out the truth . David grabbed the steering wheel and undid Nick ' s seatbelt . After a struggle the car came to a stop , and a lorry plunged into it . David survived with a few scratches , but Nick ended up in a coma . During Nick ' s few weeks in a coma David began to feel uneasy , at the possible prospect of his brother dying or Nick waking up and revealing the affair . On 26th August , Kylie gave birth and they decided to name the baby Lily . When Nick began to show signs of waking up but might be brain damaged , David hoped to use this as an excuse to make out Nick was confused if he tried to tell anyone about David crashing the van . Nick however still remembered the accident clearly , and blackmailed David into getting a test to prove which of them was Lily ' s true father . David was delighted when the results proved that he was the child ' s biological father . Although crushed , Nick accepted it . Kylie realised that David knew about her infidelity when she discovered the document confirming David ' s paternity hidden in a DVD case , and quizzed Nick over the matter . This lead to Nick confessing that David was indirectly responsible for the crash . During Lily ' s christening , Kylie told the shocked family about David ' s actions from the previous months . David was thrown out of No . 8 and banished from the street , and went to stay with Tina and later Audrey . David was determined to get his family back and noticed Kylie was struggling with looking after two children . She was developing a drinking problem which caused her to neglect Max and Lily , which David supported her through . David fully reconciled with Kylie after Christmas and returned home . 2014 : Troubles with Max and Kylie . In 2014 Max began showing signs of hyperactivity . The family were invited to visit Becky in Barbados but they returned with David annoyed as Max ' s out of control behaviour had ruined the trip . Taking Max to the doctors , they discovered that he was possibly suffering from ADHD , which was later confirmed and Max was put on medication . Kylie began to struggle with everyday problems and due to stress , began taking Max ' s ADHD pills but when David caught her she swore it was just a one off and David forgave her on the condition that she would never do anything like that again . Unbeknown to David , Kylie had tracked down her ex - boyfriend ( Max ' s dad ) Callum Logan to get drugs in order to help her to calm down . This carried on for a while but when Kylie tried to give up , Callum wouldn ' t leave her alone and repeatedly followed her around , offering them to her . On Christmas Day , David finally found out about Kylie ' s addiction when he found Callum at No . 8 offering Kylie drugs . Callum then revealed he was Max ' s dad . David kicked Kylie out of the house but later regretted his decision and went in search of for her in Callum ' s flat where he received a firm threat from Callum . Callum told him she had spent two nights at his flat but had since disappeared . 2015 - 2016 : Family harassed by Callum . Throughout January and February 2015 , Callum started spending time with Max , creating a father - son bond which outraged David . Callum also started to toy with David and his family , tricking them into reporting an empty box to the police and trying to persuade David to deliver cocaine for him , which he refused to do . He even started threatening Gail . When Max learned that Callum was his biological dad he wanted to know more and became rebellious when David tried to keep Callum away . David conceded and started letting Max see Callum . After speaking to his solicitor , Callum started taking David to court over rights to see Max . In March , Sarah and the now teenage Bethany returned home after seven years in Milan . This caused further problems for David when Sarah started a relationship with Callum after ignoring her family ' s warnings about him . In frustration , David blackmailed Andy Carver into planting drugs in Callum ' s car . When this plan failed , David was held hostage by Callum and two of his cronies Gemma Winter and Macca , but was released after narrowly avoiding a beating . David later ran away to Liverpool with Max and Lily , planning on going to another country , but before he had the chance , Max rang Callum and asked him to pick him up . A few weeks later , David had a custody hearing , which went badly as Callum had learned of David ' s troubled criminal past . In June , Kylie returned home after a six month absence and insisted she was off the drugs for good . She was horrified to see Max spending time with Callum and although David was cold to her for abandoning her family , he agreed to team up with her in order to help him keep his rights to Max . After a few weeks , David forgave Kylie and they got back together . Sarah eventually broke up with Callum , but only after she learned that Callum had been keeping a gun in Max ' s room at his flat , which Max had discovered and thought was a toy . Although David was horrified at what could have happened to Max , he saw this as the end of Callum . However , Callum was one step ahead and removed all traces of the gun before the police could search his flat . Callum was granted partial custody of Max but soon afterwards , beat up Jason Grimshaw with some of his thugs which was witnessed by Max . Max became terrified of his father and refused to see him , later telling Callum he hated him and that David was a better dad . Defeated , Callum agreed to relinquish his rights to Max on the condition that David and his family paid him £20 , 000 so he could pay off a debt to his drug supplier Denton . The family refused so Callum sent his thugs round to threaten Audrey and wreck No . 8 as warnings . In September , Sarah tricked Callum into going to No . 8 , telling him she had the money . She was actually trying to record him confessing to his crimes , but when Callum found out what she was up to , he attacked her in a rage . Kylie arrived just in time and bludgeoned Callum over the head with a wrench , killing him in the process . David was summoned to help with the situation . He planned on dumping Callum ' s body in the canal but when Callum ' s car was stolen , he was forced to temporarily hide it in a manhole in the garage . Before the body could be removed , the manhole was concreted over and the garage later converted into an annex for Gail . Kylie and Sarah struggled with keeping Callum ' s death a secret and David was forced to hold it all together . Kylie was disturbed by David ' s nonchalance and disgusted when he threatened Sarah to keep her quiet . In December , when Sarah was hit by a car sustaining minor injuries , Kylie accused David of pushing her in front of the vehicle . David told her their marriage was over , as it was clear she thought he was a psychopath , but they got back together on Chistmas Day . In May 2016 , Tyrone Dobbs crashed a pickup truck into the annex at No . 8 . The concrete over the manhole was destroyed , exposing Callum ' s body . A murder investigation began and David tried to pin the crime on Jason to help protect his family . Jason ' s brother Todd Grimshaw wanted to protect Sarah from prison so claimed that Jason ' s recently deceased father Tony Stewart had confessed to the murder before his death . David went along with it and a forensic investigation confirmed Tony was the murderer , as the murder weapon had belonged to Tony . 2016 - : Kylie ' s murder . In July 2016 , Kylie persuaded David to move to Barbados with the family to escape Callum ' s presence for good . A few days later , shortly before they were due to leave , Callum ' s former best friend Gemma ( who had turned over a new leaf ) was being attacked by Clayton Hibbs , the brother of Callum ' s other friend Macca . Kylie ran over to help Gemma but was stabbed in chest by Clayton . David arrived at the scene and promised her everything would be fine and they would still be going to Barbados . However , Kylie died in his arms before the ambulance could arrive . David became obsessed with revenge for Kylie ' s death . When he learned that Clayton could have a light sentence because he was only fifteen years old , David started plotting against him and Macca . He put up posters around Manchester identifying Clayton as Kylie ' s murderer and tried to kill Macca who had been hospitalised after being attacked by a neighbour . In October , David planned to kill Clayton on the day of his trial by driving a petrol - doused car into the police van Clayton would be in , thus causing an explosion that would kill them both . Gail , Nick and Sarah tried to stop David going through with his plan by locking him in the cellar of the Bistro until the trial was over . However , David was able to escape , by tricking Gail into thinking that he committed suicide . David then doused his car in petrol and drove away . As he was driving away , David spotted Lily in the middle of the road as she ' d wandered away from Fiz , and swerved to avoid hitting her . He ended in crashing into a skip , causing the car to flip over and land on top of Lily and Gary - who had attempted to get Lily to safety . After being pulled from the car , David helped the other residents lift the vehicle to free Lily and Gary . As soon as the car was placed back down to the ground , a spark ignited and caused the car to catch fire . As everyone ran to safety , Anna became engulfed in flames when a fireball shot out of the car and struck her . As Kevin and Nick extinguished the flames , David looked on in horror at the cost of his actions . Personality . David was once a decent kid , but after almost being murdered by killer stepfather Richard Hillman , he began to change . After his father Martin Platt moved away from Coronation Street with new girlfriend , David started to show a nastier streak , and even sent his sister and family cards from " Richard Hillman " as a sick prank , showing how unstable he became . However Gail kept putting off the troublesome David due to blaming herself . He also began to hate his family and mother , and even told Jason in 2007 that he wanted them dead . As time went on , David began to show more maturity as he aged . In 2010 when Gail was in prison for being accused of killing husband Joe McIntyre , David was very caring and concerned and upset by how Gail was wrongly accused , even trying to pay someone to be a fake witness . A year later , David showed more signs of growing up by wanting his wife Kylie ' s son Max to stay with them instead of Kylie ' s sister Becky and husband Steve looking after him . By 2013 , David had grown up massively , becoming a sort of father figure to Kylie ' s son Max , and he and Kylie were due to have a daughter . However , David ' s nasty side returned when it transpired Kylie had slept with Nick , resulting in David launching a heinous reign of terror on Nick , culminating in Nick sustaining brain damage after a car accident that was partly David ' s fault . Much of what made David the evil so - and - so he was back in the day recurred in the period that followed his estrangement from his family after it was found he ' d caused the accident . It was later found that baby Lily was indeed David ' s daughter . With time , David returned to his mature life and was re - accepted into the family . Relationships . Gail and family . David ' s relationship with his family has been a rocky one , especially in later years . He was very upset when his parents Gail and Martin separated . After nearly being murdered by stepfather Richard ( who he never liked much , nicknaming him " Tricky Dicky " ) , the experience had a lasting effect on David and he began to make Gail ' s life difficult . He disapproved of her dating new men ( such as Phil Nail ) as he felt he couldn ' t trust them after Richard . When Martin moved away , and later had a child with his girlfriend , David rarely visited his father . David made his family ' s life hell , sending cards from " Richard " as a sick joke , and also made his sister Sarah ' s life as impossible as he could manage . However he seemed to get along with his little niece Bethany , and was devastated when she swallowed an ecstasy pill while he was looking after her ( David was looking after the stash for his friend Darryl Morton ) . David at one point pushed Gail down the stairs during a heated argument , but despite this she stood by him and over time David began to mellow towards his mum , although he would on occasion make hurtful remarks towards her . He even did his best to support her and clear her name when she was accused of murdering husband Joe . Tina McIntyre . David ' s first girlfriend was Tina McIntyre , and within a week of meeting , they had sex at David ' s house , taking away his virginity . Tina became pregnant but had an abortion . David was jealous when she talked to any other men , insecurely thinking that she would leave him for one of them . Having split up with David several times before , Tina finally dumped him after he pressured her to lie for him over a fight he had with Gary Windass . For more than a year afterwards he was still obsessed with Tina and tried in vain to win her back , extremely jealous of her later boyfriends Jason Grimshaw and Graeme Proctor . At one point David even forced himself on Tina but backed off , horrified that he almost tried to rape her . David finally moved on after meeting Kylie Turner , and Tina even supported him when he had problems in his marriage to Kylie . David was upset when Tina died . Kylie and Max . When David returned from a holiday in Tenerife , he announced that he was engaged to Kylie Turner . The couple married just a few weeks later . David ' s marriage to Kylie began to mellow him , and he had taken to her young son Max acting as the father to the boy that he had never had . However the marriage wasn ' t without its rocky patches . Kylie slept with David ' s older brother Nick after David had made snide remarks about her pole dancing past when Kylie refused to have more children . When David had discovered the affair he spent months hating his mother and Nick , resulting in his brother ending up badly injured in a car accident . Kylie gave birth to a daughter Lily , David ' s first child , although not long afterwards they split up over Nick ' s accident . David and Kylie rekindled their relationship but had to deal with Max ' s behaviour problems after discovering that he had ADHD . The couple separated once again after Kylie took drugs given to her by her ex Callum Logan , although after disappearing for months Kylie returned and helped David fight a custody battle over Max against Callum , eventually resulting in the villain ' s death . In July 2016 , Kylie was stabbed to death in the street by a young man , named Clayton Hibbs . She died from blood loss in David ' s arms , leaving Max and Lily without a mum . Nick Tilsley . David ' s relationship with his older brother Nick hasn ' t been the best , as David had viewed Nick as the golden boy and favourite son . When Nick returned for Gail ' s wedding to Joe McIntyre , David grew jealous that Nick was flirting with Tina and began to mock him , and made a remark about Brian Tilsley being stabbed to death which nearly resulted in David being beaten by Nick . The pair had managed to forget their differences and work together when Gail was accused of Joe ' s murder . The lowest point in their relationship came when David found out Nick slept with Kylie and the possibility that she was carrying Nick ' s child and he wasn ' t the father . David led a hate campaign against Nick , including trying to sabotage his business and marriage to Leanne Tilsley . This had dire consequences when Nick drove David to an undisclosed location to confront him over the matter . Scared his scheming had been caught , David had attempted to stop Nick from telling the truth which resulted in the car being hit by a truck while they were fighting at the wheel . Nick was in a coma for weeks but when he woke up Nick blackmailed David to get a DNA test for his daughter Lily which showed that the baby was David ' s . Although the relationship had soured a lot since Nick ' s accident ( especially when he had temper issues ) the pair had teamed up together again the following year to threaten former convict Michael Rodwell who Gail had taken a liking to after a restorative justice programme meeting organised after he was convicted of breaking into the Platt household . Audrey Roberts . David has a fairly good relationship with his gran . Despite his many schemes and trouble - making , Audrey was willing to discipline him but would never see things taken too far . For example when David had caused Bethany to end up in hospital after stashing drugs in her dolls , Audrey took David in at her home when he was banished from the Platt household and was looked down upon by the residents of the street . Six - years later Audrey would come to his aid once more when David was again banished after indirectly causing Nick to end up in hospital after his hate campaign . Quotes . " Three witches , three bitches ! " ( Referring to his mother Gail McIntyre , sister Sarah Grimshaw and grandmother Audrey Roberts , he then mimics holding a gun and points it in their direction , while Jason Grimshaw watches ) . " Bam , bam , bam ! I know that my mother bribed you into spying on me Jason , but do you really think you are going to be my friend ? I don ' t do friends , I do enemies . Like you , gran , Maria , me dad , Jerry , Amber , my mum . I hate them all , one in all , I want them all to be dead . " ( He sees Gail walking across the road ) " Look at her , it ' s not too hard to get a gun . " ( He points his " gun " in Gail ' s direction ) " And then one shot , boom , so easy . Night , night , God bless . " ( Turns to Jason ) " I ' d best go now , don ' t want to miss me tea . " " Gail , it ' s about time you realised . We ' re all pineapples in the fruit bowl of life . " " Happy Wedding Day " ( Before driving his car into Weatherfield Canal ) . " What a shot ! " ( After Gail throws a pie in Deirdre Barlow ' s face ) .