Sandra Fowler

Sandra Fowler was the mother of Biff Fowler, who turned at Keepers Cottage, where Biff lived with Betty Eagleton and Seth Armstrong, sporting two black eyes and wanting Biff to come home. Biff was suspicious of his mother's motives. Sandra asked about Biff's girlfriend, Linda Glover, and told him that she doesn't want him to make the same mistake she did, having had him at sixteen. At that, Sandra's boyfriend Rick barged into the house and tried to force Sandra to come with him. Biff stepped in and a fight broke out. He managed to get rid of Rick and refused to go back with Sandra, who left.
In December 1996, she returned to the village, determined to stop Biff and Linda's wedding. She had a row with Betty at the doors of the church. Biff was furious to see her, but Sandra insisted that she speak to him. Biff agreed, and Sandra told him that his father Ron Hudson (who Biff never knew) was in a nursing home dying of Huntingdon's Disease, and there's a possibility that Biff could have it and could also pass it onto his children. She implored him to tell Linda. Biff refused to believe her and thought that she was just trying to spoil the biggest day of his life. Betty warned her not to voice her objections about the marriage at the ceremony. As Biff and Linda were pronounced man and wife, Sandra stormed out.
In April 1997, after hearing on the news about a baby being found on Biff and Linda's doorstep, Sandra turned up at Betty's house drunk, convinced the baby was theirs. She reminded Biff about him possibly having Huntingdon's and was shocked to discover that Linda still didn't know. Biff later met her in a café to discuss Ron's illness. She gave him the address of the care home in Skipdale and left. She was delighted when Biff visited Ron and tried to explain to him the events surrounding his birth; Ron was married when she got pregnant and that he wanted her to get rid of the baby, she refused. This did nothing to endear her to Biff and went to return to Ron, but she pulled him back and her expression told him that Ron had just died. Sandra found Biff in the hospice chapel, where he told her he doesn't want anything to do with her. She later attended Ron's funeral, where a row between her and Linda erupted. After the service, Biff offered his mother a lift home but she reflected on how disappointing Ron's send off was. She angrily told a disapproving Linda not to judge her and told Biff that she prayed nightly that he wouldn't have the disease but Biff and Linda walked away.
==List of appearances==
===1996===
*Thu 4th Jan
*Tue 9th Jan
*Tue 24th Dec
===1997===
*Tue 1st Apr
*Thu 1st May
*Thu 8th May
*Thu 15th May
Category:Emmerdale characters
Category:1996 minor characters
Category:1997 minor characters