Katy Harris

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Katy Harris
Coronation Street character
Played by	Lucy-Jo Hudson
Duration	2002-2005
Date of Birth	26 September 1986
Date of Death	20 April 2005
Marital Status	Deceased
Occupation	Student
Family	Angela , Tommy, Craig

Katy Harris (Killer Katy) was a fictional character on the soap opera Coronation Street. She was portrayed by Lucy-Jo Hudson.

[edit] Character Description

Katy was introduced as Katy Nelson, the eldest child and only daughter of Tommy and Angela Nelson. The family was in the witness protection program, and when this became common knowledge the family resumed using the surname Harris. Katy discovered she was diabetic, and nurse Martin Platt helped her get used to giving herself daily injections of insulin. The two developed a romantic relationship, even though Martin was over 20 years older than Katy. Katy became pregnant, but her scheming father, Tommy, persuaded her to have an abortion by fabricating a story that Martin was having an affair. When Katy found out Tommy had lied, she confronted him, but he showed no sympathy or remorse. Furious, she hit him with a wrench, inadvertently killing him. Katy's mother, Angela witnessed the murder but persuaded her not to call the police, and they went through a pretence that Tommy had been killed by an intruder, until forensic evidence led to Angela's arrest. After a few weeks, Katy could finally live with the guilt no longer and wrote a note telling the truth about her father's death and then committed suicide by drinking water mixed with sugar (a deadly solution, because of her diabetes). Martin later found her lying unconscious on the sofa with the note right beside her. She was later taken to hospital, but died shortly after arriving.