Billy Stratton was the young son of Danny Stratton, a hotel manager who Becky McDonald fell in love with. In the early days of their relationship, Danny hadn't mentioned his son and so, when Becky turned up at his house unannounced one night and saw the child there with another woman, she assumed she had been lied to and that Danny had a wife. He explained to her that the woman was his sister and that Billy's mother Vicky Stratton had died in a car accident three years before. Becky was instantly taken with the child and happily played games with him and could see what Danny meant when he said that although the child had been unplanned, he was the best thing that had ever happened to him.