List of Coronation Street Characters (1978) - Ed Jackson

Thomas Edward "Ed" Jackson was one of two robbers who staged a robbery on Mike Baldwin's factory. Ed (known then as "Tommo") and his friend Dave followed Mike, and his wages clerk Ernest Bishop to the bank and then to the factory. They began to menace Ernest out of the wages he had been preparing. Mike began to wonder what was taking so long and opened the door, knocking Ed, causing him to shoot Ernest, who later died in hospital.

Ed returned in 2006. He befriended Emily Bishop at church and began dating Eileen Grimshaw. Ed divulged to Emily his prison background and subsequently revealed that he was responsible for the death of Emily's husband Ernest. Emily expressed her disgust at this revelation and born again Christian Ed dramatically contemplated suicide, but Emily forgave him when he asked her for forgiveness. She gave him Ernest's old camera, and made him promise to send her Christmas card, with a photograph of himself every year to show her he was alive and well. With that Ed left Weatherfield.