List of Coronation Street Characters (2006) - Freddie Peacock

Frederick Thomas "Freddie" Peacock (né Thomas Duncan) is the son of Ashley and Claire Peacock. Claire suffers from post natal depression after Freddie is born, refusing to believe that Freddie is her child. On one occasion, she pushes his pram into the path of an oncoming vehicle and tries to return him to the hospital. She is sectioned until she is well enough to come home.

In October 2006, Claire announces that she would like to change his name from Thomas to Freddie, after his paternal grandfather Fred Elliott who died the week before. In December 2006, he is christened Frederick Thomas with Eileen Grimshaw as godmother and Roy Cropper as his godfather.

In May 2007, a fire starts in Freddie's bedroom. Claire is rescued from the burning building but Freddie is not found until later that day, wrapped up in a local park. It is revealed that the fire was started deliberately by use of an accelerant. Originally, this storyline was to last several months but was rewritten to avoid upsetting the family of Madeleine McCann, who disappeared two weeks previously. In September 2007, the identity of Freddie's abductor is revealed to be Claire's former friend, Casey Carswell. Casey abducts Freddie and takes him to the balcony of her flat where she threatens to jump with him. Freddie is rescued unharmed and Casey is arrested.

When a tram crashes on to the Street on 6 December 2010, Ashley is killed when the roof of 'The Joinery' Bar collapses and he is crushed by the debris. Freddie and Joshua are subsequently left without a father. In January 2011, Claire attacks Tracy Barlow after she makes insulting remarks about Ashley and after Becky McDonald is arrested for assaulting Tracy and leaving her for dead, she confesses to the police. Her friends persuade her to leave the country to avoid a prison sentence and take her sons with her. Freddie, Claire and Joshua leave for France on 14 January 2011.