for Perdita but regrets it when she realises how unstable Grayson and Perdita's marriage is. However, Katie gets pregnant but threatens to have an abortion when Perdita leaves Grayson for Sadie's ex-lover and their brother-in-law Matthew (Matt Healy). Katie stays with Grayson and their relationship becomes more intimate. When Perdita finds out, she attacks Katie and fears that she has caused Katie to miscarry and she gets medical help. Perdita then tells Katie that Grayson is bisexual and had had an affair with Paul Lambert (Mathew Bose) causing Katie to doubt her relationship. When Katie learns that Grayson has been supporting Perdita and lying to her, she cons money from him. Katie gives birth to a baby boy in the back of Matthew's car and after signing parental rights over to Perdita, she gives Perdita the money she had conned from Grayson, in order to start a new life in London. Grayson is enraged when he finds out and holds Katie at gunpoint, demanding Katie tell him where Perdita is. Katie refuses to tell him, even when Grayson ends up taking Matthew and his brothers hostage; Grayson ends up shooting Matthew's youngster brother Carl (Tom Lister), but their older brother Jimmy (Nick Miles) helps Matthew overpower Grayson – who is consequently arrested. In November, Katie grows close to Andy again after Jo, his ex-wife, throws him out after he has been subjecting her to domestic violence. Katie takes pity on Andy and gives him a job at the stables but he later attempts to kiss her. When he reacts aggressively to her rejecting him, she sacks him. Katie visits Jo and the two women make peace over their differences and Katie convinces Jo to leave the village in order to escape from Andy. In December, Katie helps Matthew with his ill-fated wedding to her friend Anna De Souza (Emma Davies). However, the ceremony is ruined when Carl – upon discovering that Matthew is partly the reason why their family's company is now under liquidation – confronts him and exposes his brother's involvement in the death of Anna's father Donald (Michael Jayston), who recently died of a heart attack. This prompts Anna to flee, and Katie follows her to comfort whilst Matthew and Carl end up fighting each other shortly afterwards. As Anna struggles to come with the terms of discovering how her father died, Katie urges her to talk to