Joanne Khan was Flick Khan's irresponsible younger sister who ran off to the Lake District with Steve McDonald. In 1990, when their parents flew out to Karachi to visit a sick relative, Joanne was sent up from Canterbury to Weatherfield to stay with Flick at 7 Coronation Street. She had no sooner arrived when she turned the head of Andy McDonald, who saw her taxi pull up and helped her with her bag. The next day, she let Andy show her what Weatherfield had to offer, getting to know him as he did so. To remove the competition, Andy told Joanne that Steve was way younger than him but she was soon put straight by Jenny Bradley. Liking Andy but not crazy about him, Joanne went along to a meeting at Jim's Cafe after receiving a romantic poem inviting her. There, she discovered that it was actua