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Sarah was born prematurely. Sarah is the daughter of Brian Tilsley (Christopher Quinten) and Gail Tilsley (Helen Worth). Questions are raised about whether Brian is Sarah's father due to Gail's affair with Brian's cousin. Brian rejects Sarah at birth in 1987, thinking she is not his daughter. Even after a blood-test reveals he is her father, it takes Brian time to bond with Sarah. Brian is murdered just two weeks after her second birthday, and Sarah is subsequently raised by Gail's second husband Martin Platt (Sean Wilson).
In February 2000, just after her 13th birthday, Sarah discovers she has been impregnated with Neil Fearns (Paul Holowaty)'s baby. Her baby daughter Bethany is born four months later. The father, Neil Fearns (Paul Holowaty), has no paternal interests in Bethany. However, when Neil dies in a car crash, his mother, Brenda Fearns (Julia Deakin), establishes contact with Sarah. This nearly leads to Bethany's death, when Brenda tries to commit suicide with Bethany, fearing Bethany is being raised in a house of sin; Emily Bishop (Eileen Derbyshire), however, finds them and stops Brenda before harm is done.
During autumn 2002, Sarah becomes rebellious, splitting with her boyfriend Todd Grimshaw (Bruno Langley) and moving on to a mischievous romance with troublemaker, Aiden Critchley, who introduces her joyriding and crashes their car, leaving Sarah comatose with severe head injuries. She manages to survive and dumps Aiden, disgusted that he had left her for dead in the wreckage.
Sarah gets back together with Todd in early 2003 and they begin to share a flat, which causes great difficulties between mother and daughter. To Gail's horror, Sarah uncovers her pregnancy again, aged 16. She is doubtful whether to have their child but is convinced by Todd. Against the wishes of their families, they get engaged; however, unbeknownst to Sarah, Todd is struggling with his emerging homosexual feelings and begins a secret fling with nurse Karl Foster (Chris Finch), behind Sarah's back. When Sarah finds out, she suffers a placental abruption, and is given an emergency caesarean. Her extremely ill son, Billy, dies soon after birth. Sarah blames Todd and refuses to allow him to attend their son's funeral.
Sarah dates Asian skip man, Scooter Makuna (Sushil Chudasama), briefly in 2005 before embarking on a more serious relationship with Todd's brother Jason Grimshaw (Ryan Thomas), effectively removing him from his girlfriend Violet Wilson (Jenny Platt). Sarah enters an engagement with Jason in March 2006, but once again, their families opposed the marriage. Jason gets cold feet on their wedding day, and jilts her at the altar; it takes Sarah time to forgive him, but the relationship continues and the wedding is reorganised.
Sarah's relationship with her brother David grows strained in 2007, when Bethany takes an ecstasy pill, David had hidden in one of her dolls, and nearly dies. David and Sarah continue to bicker continuously up until Sarah's wedding day, when he attempts to kill himself. The police interrupt the ceremony to inform the Platts of the attempted suicide; Sarah marries Jason regardless. Shortly after, Sarah's uncle Stephen Reid (Todd Boyce) visits and offers David a job in Milan. Jealous, Sarah sabotages David's plans by planting drugs on him, which causes Stephen to withdraw the job offer. Stephen instead offers the job to Sarah. She accepts, and on 30 December 2007, she, Jason and Bethany leave for the airport to fly to Milan. However, at Piccadilly station, Sarah confesses to Jason that she planted the drugs on David. Disgusted, he walks away, leaving Sarah to fly to Milan alone. Jason later visits her to rekindle, but Sarah declares their marriage is over; they divorce and Sarah begins a romance with an Italian man.
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