Vincent "Vinny" Sorrell was a Rovers cellarman and boyfriend of landlady Natalie Barnes.
After a year, as Vinny began to turn away from Natalie, he left the pub to work for Duggie Ferguson. Used to evict tenants from Duggie's properties, Vinny found the experience miserable and got back at Duggie by running off to Southampton with his girlfriend - and Natalie's sister - Debs Brownlow.
Laura Barnes, Vinny's daughter with Natalie, was born in 2001 after the pair had split up.