jack evans, played by the identical twins samuel timson and joseph timson, is the son of barry and natalie evans (shaun williamson and lucy speed). he has a traumatic breech birth early in 2002. he is named after natalie's younger brother. jack initially lives with his parents, his grandfather roy (tony caunter) and roy's wife pat (pam st. clement), but moves out of albert square in march 2003 following his parents' divorce and roy's death. barry is devoted to jack and agonises over the fact that he cannot be a full-time father to him.