 When Charlie was taken in to hospital in January 2008 for leukaemia treatment, it was revealed that Jake was not the biological father (his blood did not match that of Charlie), and that Justin was actually the father of Charlie.After the start of the custody proceedings between Nancy and Jake (following Jake's attempted rape of Nancy), in March 2008, Jake attempted to take his own life, along with that of Charlie.Jake was put into a secure unit and Justin convinced Jake to confess to the murder of Sean Kennedy (Matthew Jay Lewis) (although he had nothing to do with the murder) in agreement that he would stop backing Nancy with her case to get custody.