Pat Phelan Patrick James " Pat " Phelan is a sleazy crooked businessman , con - artist and builder who was originally the enemy of Owen Armstrong , and was responsible for destroying the lives of Owen and his family by swindling them during a property deal in 2014 . Despite what he had done to them , Phelan returned to the street at the beginning of 2016 ( even though Owen had moved away by this point ) and continued his scheming . He eventually entered a relationship with Eileen Grimshaw and took part in a scheme with his just - as - crooked partner Vinny to con the residents in a property deal involving luxury apartments . Biography . 2013 - 2014 : Feud with the Armstrong / Windass Clan . Pat Phelan was a client of Owen Armstrong , and temporarily became his business partner . When he refused to pay Owen for a job , Owen soon discovered that Pat was bankrupt . Owen then attempted to get the money out of Pat ' s wife Valerie , however she refused to pay . Owen and Gary Windass broke into Pat ' s home , stole his motorbike and locked it away at the Builder ' s Yard . Pat eventually decided to pay up what he owed and seemingly called it quits . A few days before Christmas , Pat turned up at 6 Coronation Street in order to put forward a business proposition to Owen , offering him a flat - conversion contract and wanting Owen to front the project as he was bankrupt . Owen ' s partner Anna Windass wasn ' t pleased and didn ' t want Owen to agree . However , a couple of weeks later Phelan and Owen met up to discuss the deal with Phelan telling Owen that he needed £80 , 000 upfront for the costs but guaranteed that he would make over £200 , 000 profit . Owen decided to talk the arrangement over with Anna with Phelan stating that he would give Owen twenty - four hours to think things over . Despite family reservations , their business partnership was agreed . When Owen realised that Phelan didn ' t put his share into the account he tried in vain to contact Phelan and believed that Phelan may have conned them . Pat later turned up at the Builder ' s Yard and revealed that the money was already in the account , much to Owen ' s embarrassment . Anna then went round to Pat ' s house to apologise for having a go at him , but later felt uneasy in his presence and left . During numerous meets with Pat and his wife , Anna felt increasingly awkward - especially on one occasion when Pat had stroked her across the back and kept complimenting her appearance . Anna decided to settle the score and invited Phelan round to No . 6 to tell him to back off . However Phelan , seemingly oblivious to her demands , began to accuse her of trying to come onto him . He appeared to try and make a move on her , but soon left leaving Anna worried . That night she backed out of another meeting with the Phelans at Nick ' s Bistro , feigning illness . When Gary found out about Phelan ' s inappropriate advances towards his mother , he approached Pat at the site after all the workers had left and began questioning him about what went on . Pat then began goading Gary , accused Anna of being a tart and the pair got into a fight ; Gary hit Phelan over the head with a plank of wood and knocked him unconscious . Believing that he had killed Pat , Gary summoned Owen to the site but they quickly discovered there was no sign of him . Phelan turned up again a few of days later , proving that he was alive and well . At the building site the following day , he took Gary and Owen into the site office and revealed the CCTV footage which showed Gary attacking him . Phelan assured both Gary and Owen that he had further copies , and then demanded that they either completed the work for a minimum wage gleaning no profit or he would hand the the CCTV footage in to the police . Owen complied to Phelan ' s orders despite Gary ' s reluctance , as Owen didn ' t want his grandchild without a father figure if Gary were to be sent down . Phelan delighted in overworking Owen and Gary , who began to take their frustrations out on their family . Gary , deciding to get a measure of revenge on Phelan and to try and make a bit of money back , stole a shipment of tiles from him . However Phelan found out it was Gary due to his poor attempt to cover his tracks and told Owen that , in exchange for him not going to the police , he had to agree to forfeit the £80 , 000 he invested in the job . Owen was furious , but felt he had no choice to agree . Phelan then twisted the knife by arranging for Owen to be removed from the council ' s list of approved builders , effectively blacklisting him which meant he could no longer get any independent work . Anna visited Phelan after realising what strain his actions were causing to her family , and he gave her proposition : to have sex with him and he would let Gary and Owen go from the project . Although disgusted , Anna went along with Phelan ' s plans out of desperation and met him at the Dunford Hall Hotel where the two slept together . After spending some time with him , a dirty and angry Anna left after Phelan laughed and teased her . The next day he told Owen and Gary to go home , and got Owen to sign a form releasing him from the project . However he refused to pay back Owen ' s investment , leaving him with a loan he was going to struggle to pay back . In June 2014 , Phelan sent the Windass household a postcard from Dubai in an attempt to rub his glory in further . Around this time Anna admitted to Owen that she had slept with Pat in order for him to leave the Windass family alone . The revelation drove the couple apart as Owen was disgusted by her actions . However things didn ' t work out for Phelan either as Valerie had finally saw him for what he really was and divorced him . As he was bankrupt and she had all the money and assets in her name , he was left with nothing . 2016 - : Return . Phelan had returned to Weatherfield by January 2016 , working as a labourer on the conversion project for Kevin Webster ' s new garage . Having witnessed the getaway from the bungled robbery at Nick ' s Bistro , Phelan stood in front of the car but Kevin , realising that the vehicle wasn ' t going to stop , pulled him to safety . As a concerned Anna went to check on Kevin , she was stunned to see Phelan . Phelan became close friends with Vinny Ashford . Phelan and Vinny built a scam together , and then began a relationship with Eileen Grimshaw . After Eileen ' s son Todd discovered the deception , he also went along with the scam . Eileen ' s ex , Michael Rodwell , attempted to bring him down permanently . Michael broke into Phelan ' s office and discovered fake passports , but when Phelan noticed he was there , Michael threw a chair at him and ran out of the office . Outside , as Michael collapsed with a heart attack , Phelan watched on as Michael died instead of calling for an ambulance and then walked away . Todd found Michael dead the following morning and Vinny did a runner with the money . In December 2016 , Andy Carver wanted his revenge on Phelan for what he had done . After trying to kill him , Phelan blackmailed Andy into doing what he wanted , threatening to go to the police and send him down for attempted murder . Firstly , Andy was ordered to steal the new iPads that Nick had bought for the bistro . When Anna had fallen downstairs on New Years Eve , Kevin ' s six - year - old son , Jack , ran off to get help and Phelan offered to help . He had to kick the door in to rescue Anna . After fixing the door , Phelan stole the receipt for Kevin ' s new pick - up truck . A few days later , Phelan called the retailer and changed the delivery address for the new truck . Andy was ordered to sell it . Andy and his girlfriend , Steph Britton , had planned to move to Portugal . A couple of days before they left , Phelan noticed that Kevin was filming him on CCTV and demanded that Andy set fire to the garage . Andy agreed . That night , Phelan poured vodka into Kevin ' s drink . Kevin went to sleep in a car at the garage . After Luke Britton and Tracy Barlow had intercourse the previous night , they also wanted CCTV footage deleted as it had been filming during the night . Afterwards , Andy poured petrol on the floor , set fire to a bag and threw it down to the ground . Andy made off with Kevin ' s laptop containing the CCTV footage . On Phelan ' s wedding day , Phelan noticed Andy with the laptop with the footage playing . Phelan ' s last demand was to break the laptop . Andy hit him with it and Phelan pretended to be unconscious . He was able to grab Andy , who fought back , taking the struggle to the floor , Phelan gained the upper hand and grabbed Kevin ' s laptop and hit Andy with it . Phelan texted Steph with Andy ' s phone , leading her to believe that Andy had broken off with her and left for Bristol . Phelan then rushed to his wedding , where he married Eileen . Phelan later returned to Andy ' s flat and attempted to clean the blood stains from the carpet with a wide assortment of cleaning products . With no progress being made , Phelan flooded the flat by breaking open the radiator . Quotes . " Well . . . Owen ! " ( First line ) . " I won ' t cause you any trouble , if you don ' t cause " me " any trouble . " ( To Anna Windass upon returning to Weatherfield ) " I could see the whites of his eyes , they were pleading with me . I ' ve never seen anyone look so scared , with the possible exception of you ! " ( To Andy Carver , explaining his involvement in Michael Rodwell ' s death ) " Remember that story you were writing ? About the bad guy that gets his comeuppance ? I ' ve just thought of a new ending . " ( To Andy Carver , just before hitting him with Kevin Webster ' s laptop )