Sylvia Crozier was Wendy Crozier's stepmother. Sylvia married Wendy's widower father and was sufficiently close to her stepdaughter that Wendy sometimes referred to her as her mother. In April 1990, Wendy had Sylvia over for lunch so that Sylvia could meet her partner Ken Barlow. At that point, Ken had recently lost his job at the Gazette, adding to his woes following his separation from Deirdre. Having been forced to cancel a weekend at Alton Towers with Tracy to meet Sylvia, Ken didn't want to be there and, while Wendy was out collecting Sylvia from the train station, he went out for a walk to get space. While they waited on him, Sylvia - unaware that Ken and Wendy had got together while Ken was still with his wife - got the full story out of Wendy, cutting through her attempts to justif