Sandra Arden (née Gilroy, previously Shaw) was the daughter of Alec and Joyce Gilroy. In 1990, Alec contacted Sandra for the first time in twenty years after obtaining her address from his ex-wife Joyce, who'd taken Sandra with her when she left Alec all those years ago. After discovering that Sandra lived in a massive Cheshire house, Alec met her and her husband Tim along with his granddaughter Victoria.