After
Grace Hutchinson's death from
SIDS, Dom comforts
Mandy Hutchinson (
Sarah Jayne Dunn). Mandy develops feelings for Dom and leaves Tony, but continues to stay in contact with Dom. Dom begins a relationship with
Tina McQueen (
Leah Hackett) after they bond over their love of classic literature. Tina's sisters
Michaela (
Hollie-Jay Bowes) and
Carmel McQueen (
Gemma Merna) overhear Dom speaking lovingly on a phone to "Cathy", a character from he and Tina's favourite book, who they assume to be
Kathy Barnes (
Sarah Jane Buckley) and accuse Dom of having an affair. Dom then proposes to Tina, which she accepts. Just before their wedding day, Tina discovers Dom and Mandy's past feelings for each other and feels she cannot trust him. After some convincing, Tina goes through with the wedding. Tina sleeps with
Russ Owen (
Stuart Manning) after she begins to feel neglected by Dom. At the same time, Tina agrees to have a surrogate child for Tony and
Jacqui McQueen (
Claire Cooper). After the insemination, Dom tries to get Tina to have an abortion, but later accepts her decision. Tina gives birth to
Max McQueen and admits that Russ is the father, which causes Dom and Tina to split up. Dom and Tina reconcile when he finds her fatally wounded due to an explosion caused by
Niall Rafferty (
Barry Sloane). Dom becomes romantically involved with pole dancer
Loretta Jones (
Melissa Walton), however their relationship ends after he makes her choose between him and her career. Dom then goes into partnership at diner Relish with
Ravi Roy (
Stephen Uppal). Tony admits his financial trouble to Dom, who vows to help Tony. At first Dom turns to
Warren Fox (
Jamie Lomas) for a loan of 10,000 pounds, however Warren instructs Dom to get a set of matches and burn the Il Gnosh down and on the same night, Il Gnosh is set on fire by an unseen arsonist, which causes the deaths of
Steph Roach (
Carley Stenson) and
Malachy Fisher (
Glen Wallace). Tony finds a picture of
Amber Sharpe (Lydia Lloyd-Henry) on Dom's phone and accuses him of getting her pregnant, to which Dom protests his innocence.
Ste Hay (
Kieron Richardson) tells Dom he believes
Brendan Brady (
Emmett J. Scanlan) set the fire. Brendan threatens Dom, who admits to being the arsonist. Tony then confides in Dom, who again admits the truth, revealing he set the fire to destroy a laptop which
Bart McQueen (
Jonny Clarke) had told him had pictures of Amber on it. Tony tells Dom to tell the police. However, Dom pleads with Tony to let him leave the village. Tony disagrees and stands by Dom as he phones the police, who later lead him away. Dom attempts to clear his name once the truth is out about the fire by telling Tony it was Warren who was the real mastermind behind the fire, however due to Warren apparently meant to be dead, Tony does not believe Dom and leaves him to serve his prison sentence. ==References==