Irene Stocks

Irene Stocks is the adoptive mother of Ryan Stocks as well as a midwife at Hotten General.

Irene assisted teenage Charity Dingle (who used the name Deborah) in December 1990 when she gave birth to a baby boy. However, the baby was not breathing and they tried to revive him. Charity saw the doctors working on the baby and not willing to watch him die, fled the hospital. However, Charity didn't realise that the doctors managed to bring back her son. Irene took a liking to him and being unable to find Charity, adopted him in October 1991.

In May 2018, Charity visited Hotten General to try track down Irene to see if she knew where her baby's grave may be, in order to get evidence to get Mark Bails sent to prison. Irene lied that she wasn't the midwife and Charity might be confusing her with someone else. When Irene arrived home, she found and re-read her adoption order dating to 1991.