1999–2002 Luke arrives with his parents
Andy Morgan (
Ross Davidson) and
Sue Morgan (
Eve White), brother
Adam Morgan (David Brown), and sisters
Beth Morgan (Elizabeth O'Grady,
Kate Baines) and
Zara Morgan (
Kelly Greenwood). He begins a friendship with
Darren Osborne (
Ashley Taylor Dawson) and a relationship with
Mandy Richardson (
Sarah Jayne Dunn). During a game of football, Luke tackles
Mark Gibbs (Colin Parry) which ends Mark's chances of becoming a professional footballer and leads to Mark resenting Luke and bullying him. When Luke stands up to Mark, he becomes annoyed. One night Mark and two of his friends beats him up, before
raping him. Luke remains silent about the rape, afraid of the consequences and his relationship with Mandy deteriorates as a result. They separate and she begins a relationship with Darren, aware it will upset Luke. When he tries to tell Mandy about the rape, she ignores him and tries to punish him for their separation. Luke becomes depressed and
attempts suicide so Adam encourages him to talk to someone and Luke tells his family that he was raped. Sue, Adam and Mandy are supportive, whereas Andy struggles to believe his son. Darren is spiteful towards Luke and believes Luke is gay and lying about the rape. Annoyed at Darren's behaviour, Mandy ends their relationship and supports Luke. Sue begins to struggle with the pressure of the rape and begins taking medication. After Mark intimidates him, Luke decides to inform the police he was raped and Mark, along with his two friends, are charged with assault and rape. Believing the family will be disowned by the community, Andy asks Luke to drop the charges and later, Mark harasses Luke and tells him that he won't be believed. At the trial, Mark and his friends are found guilty and Mark is sentenced to eight years imprisonment, whereas the friends are sentenced to three years imprisonment. Luke and Andy's relationship becomes estranged and he sells the story of his rape to the press to humiliate Andy. Eventually, they reunite but Luke struggles with Andy and Sue's inability to discuss the rape so decides to move out. Luke later expresses an interest in reconciling with Mandy but she decides not to as he is still overcoming the rape and secretly dates
Ben Davies (
Marcus Patric), Luke's close friend. Luke discovers their affair and briefly disowns them. Hoping to move on, Luke begins a relationship with
Laura Burns (Lesley Crawford), who is mentally unstable. He begins to believe Laura is using him and is pleased when they separate, although Laura begins to secretly obsess over Mandy. At a party,
Scott Anderson (
Daniel Hyde) teases Luke over the rape and with his friends, he chases Luke and pretends to rape him. Luke is traumatised by the attack and breaks down with Adam, admitting that he will not be able to move past the rape. He later tells Adam that he plans on leaving the village to escape his past. Luke is offered a job in Canada as a school football coach, which he accepts. As he prepares to leave, Beth admits that Scott raped her at the party, devastating Luke as he blames himself. After deciding to stay in the village to support Beth, she insists he leave to rebuild his life, which he eventually decides to do. Luke leaves and after he settles in Canada, Beth informs their family of her rape. Luke later returns to the village for his parents' second wedding. Despite being in a relationship with Adam, Mandy has a fling with Luke after realising they have feelings for each other. Luke offers Mandy the chance to return to Canada with him, but she declines and he returns alone.
2017–2022 Fifteen years later, Darren spots Luke in a bar near Hollyoaks village and they have lunch together; when Darren disappears momentarily, Luke steals money from his wallet and absconds. Darren tracks Luke down and discovers he is unemployed so offers him a job at his taxi firm,
Daz Cabs. A drunk Luke later returns home to his partner, who is revealed to be Mandy; she warns him to stop drinking. When Darren discovers Luke drinking alcohol whilst working, he sacks him; they discuss Luke's situation and Luke denies being an alcoholic. Darren invites Luke to an AA meeting but he does not arrive as planned. Luke leaves Mandy's daughter,
Ella Richardson (Erin Palmer), by herself when he goes to buy alcohol and the neighbours call social services.
Tony Hutchinson (
Nick Pickard) and Mandy return to the house and find social services waiting for them. They take Ella in to care and when Luke returns drunk again, Mandy leaves him. Five weeks later, Luke returns to the village to see Mandy and he is not drunk. He tries to win her around but she rejects him so he walks away. However he meets Tony's wife,
Diane (
Alex Fletcher), for the first time and she reveals Tony kissed Mandy so Luke heads over to Tony's restaurant and has a fight with him. When Darren is released from prison, he discovers Luke is homeless and living out of his car. After Luke emotionally reveals to Darren that he has a drinking problem, Darren moves him in with the Osbornes. After setting into life with the Osbornes, Luke gets a trial at Hollyoaks High as a PE teacher. However, two of his students fight, which causes Luke to have flashbacks to when he was raped by Mark. Just as Luke is about to drink for the first time in over a month,
Mac Nightingale (
David Easter) causes an explosion in the school building, leaving Darren and Luke trapped and killing
Neeta Kaur (
Amrit Maghera). As Darren and Luke climb through an air vent, Luke reveals to Darren that he has a secret son and wife. They become trapped when debris blocks the air vents but it eventually gives way, freeing them. The following month, Mandy decides to give Luke a second chance and they go on a date in Chester. Luke flees after seeing Mark. He then becomes obsessed with Mark, stalking him on social media and trying to arrange a meeting with him to buy his car whilst posing as
Nancy Osborne (
Jessica Fox). Luke is furious that Mark has a seemingly charmed life, with a wife and two children. He becomes a personal trainer and takes Mark's wife,
Jenna (Laura Hopper), as a client. She tells Luke that Mark served eight years for a trumped up GBH charge. Fuming, Luke finds out where they live and trashes their house, buy drops Nancy's credit card in their home. After seeing Luke at the police station with Nancy, Mark confronts him at the Osborne house. Mark continues to behave as cockily as he did 17 years ago and shows no remorse for what happened. Mark goes to meet Jenna but finds Luke has followed him. Mark's demeanour has changed, saying his prison sentence was hell because of what he had done. Luke breaks down and reveals the agony of his life because of the rape, and asks Mark just to acknowledge what he did and apologise. Mark begs Luke not to tell Jenna and that he is not to blame for what has gone wrong in his life. Just then, Jenna overhears and asks what he meant, and Luke reveals what Mark had done to him. Jenna believes him due to Mark's silence and storms off, disgusted. Mark tells Luke it was one night and should have been left in the past. Luke responds that it is all his fault. Mandy and Luke reconcile after she can see how hard he's trying to redeem himself, and in the process Mandy proposes. Luke agrees, even though he is already married to
Scarlett Morgan (
Susie Amy). Luke seeks help from lawyer
Sami Maalik (Rishi Nair) to get a divorce from Scarlett, but they are unable to track her down. Luke damages Mandy's dress in a bid to delay the wedding, but she finds another dress. On the day of the wedding, Scarlett arrives in the village and confronts Luke, demanding that he give her money. He offers her £500 and a promise to find more money so Scarlett leaves. Luke and Mandy marry, but Luke's son,
Oliver Morgan (Aedan Duckworth), crashes the wedding reception and reveals that Luke is his father and that he is still married to Scarlett. Luke bonds with Oliver over their shared interest in football. Later, Luke calls Mandy to apologise, unaware that she is sleeping with Darren. Luke's alcoholism continues to get worse, leading to the deterioration of his relationship with Mandy and causing him to ignore Ollie's attempts to talk to him about the grooming that he is experiencing at the hands of
Buster Smith (Nathan Sussex). Luke also almost kills
Simone Loveday (
Jacqueline Boatswain) while drink driving and she encourages him to seek help after sharing her own experiences with alcohol. However, he is later arrested after being caught drink driving again. In early September 2018, Luke is finally sober and discovers explicit photos of Ollie in the bin. Believing that he has a girlfriend and that she took them, Luke discovers that Oliver has been sexually abused by Buster, but Oliver accidentally tells Luke that his abuser is
Scott Drinkwell (
Ross Adams). Luke attacks Scott and he is hospitalized.
Mercedes McQueen (
Jennifer Metcalfe) calls the police off-screen and Luke is arrested and imprisoned for GBH. Luke stands at Buster's trial and testifies against Buster, where is found guilty and sentenced to six years imprisonment. Luke is released later in the year and has a brief fling with
Lisa Loveday (
Rachel Adedeji) to make
Cindy Cunningham (
Stephanie Waring) jealous. Luke acts as support when Diane is under the influence that Tony has left her, but he was stabbed and kidnapped by
Breda McQueen (
Moya Brady). Luke and Cindy start dating and agree to set up a Grand Bazzar in the village. In October, Luke starts drinking again, believing that Cindy and Ollie are ashamed of him. The construction work for the Bazzar comes to a halt after Breda crashes her car into the crane, with Tony in the boot, but nobody notices him. The crane malfunctions and crashes after Luke tampers with the controls whilst drunk. He briefly sees Tony before Breda kidnaps him again. Cindy faces large fines from the council and demands that Luke pays them. Luke puts his differences aside with Cindy and proposes, which she accepts. On New Year's Eve, Ollie witnesses
Sid Sumner (Billy Price) buying ketamine and Luke manages to stop him from taking it. After displaying several health conditions, Luke refers himself to a doctor, where he is formally diagnosed with
frontotemporal dementia. Devastated at the diagnosis, he determines to ensure that he gets aspects of his life right. He is able to get Ollie clean from his ketamine addiction, and settles his differences with his mother,
Sue before her death. Zara returns to the village after many years, and upon learning of Luke's diagnosis, she moves in with him and Cindy to ensure Luke has additional support. Over the next few months, Luke's condition begins to deteriorate, with him making reckless conditions, such as spending fundraiser money raised for a dementia-based charity on a holiday for him and Cindy, resulting in them being ostracised by the village and facing a charge of fraud, which is later dropped. Luke and Cindy later have a combined stag do and hen night in
Majorca. During this holiday, Luke, Ollie, Darren and Tony are robbed, with Cindy's engagement ring being taken. Desperate to get it back, Luke finds where the robbers are, and upon realising they are not armed, he is able to coerce them into giving Cindy's engagement ring back. During a meal at the mountainside, Luke wanders around the area, beaming that he and Cindy are finally going to get a happily ever after, but due to his dementia clouding his mind, he is unable to realise he is standing too close to the cliff's edge. As Cindy warns him he is too close to the edge, Luke loses his balance and falls off the cliff and into the ocean. Luke is hospitalised and is in a coma; where Cindy keeps a vigil by his bedside. Luke is rushed into surgery after suffering from a
collapsed lung, but he has sustained too much damage that the surgery failed, and therefore will eventually die from his injuries. Cindy, Ollie, Zara and Tony say their final goodbyes to Luke on his bedside. Luke then dies with Cindy by his side. In 2023 Cindy suffers a bipolar episode after stopping taking her medication and has visions of Luke. == Reception ==