Sandy Thomas

Sandy Thomas is the widower of Dorothy Thomas, father of Ashley and Luke Thomas and grandfather to Jasmine, Gabby, Arthur and Dotty Thomas. A well- and long-lived man, Sandy has outlived his wife and one of his sons.

In December 2013, 17 years after initially becoming the Vicar of St.Mary's Church, Sandy's son Ashley gets his old job back. However after discovering that his rival, Harriet Finch, was the first choice but resigned because of him, he gave the job up for her. Harriet is later sacked after officiating an unauthorized same-sex blessing for Ali Spencer and Ruby Haswell. Ashley regains his position as vicar for Saint Mary's church. Harriet and Ashley begin a relationship soon after. However, things got tragically worse for Ashley, when he was knocked down by Victoria Sugden's car in 2015. Following his accident, he suffered multiple seizures and was diagnosed with epilepsy. Later on in the year, Ashley started losing his memory over certain things. He was diagnosed with early onset vascular dementia. As his illness started to show, he told his wife Laurel, Sandy, Harriet and his children of his condition. He remarried Laurel and she began supporting him as his condition deteriorated.In 2016 Sandy's granddaughter Dotty Thomas was born. She is named after Sandy's wife Dorothy Thomas, who sadly passed away. Later on in 2016, Ashley is involved in a car accident due to Emma Barton pushing partner James over the bridge, causing him to die in hospital. Due to Ashley's illness, he sadly died in the Thomas home with his friends and family around him. Ashley's funeral was held a week later.

Sandy's teenage granddaughter Gabby is a bit of the village bad girl and don't get along with so many people especially Kerry Wyatt and Dan Spencer after she reelected their sex tap onto the internet after it was accidentally recorded on one of the laptops in the salon which Gabby's mother Bernice owns. A couple of weeks later Gabby and her best friend Liv Flaherty hold a house smashing party at Gordon's house which was left to Liv to express how much they hate Gordon after he raped Liv's brother Aaron Dingle when he was a little boy. Bernice and Chas Dingle close the party down and take the girls home, who are significantly drunk and can barely even walk. Bernice tries to make Gabby walk in a straight line but Gabby vomits all over Bernice's shoes.