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EastEnders.
The unsettling scenes aired during Friday s (December 18) episode, after her latest attempts to rekindle her romance with husband Mick (Danny Dyer) were rebuffed.
Linda (Kellie Bright) had come face-to-face with Katy Lewis (Simone Lahbib), not knowing anything about the abuse Mick suffered at her hands as a child. BBC
Katy continued her manipulations by trying to get Linda on her side, telling her that Mick was constantly singing his wife s praises.
Katy later suggested Mick stop looking back at traumatic events from his past in order to get his marriage on track, insisting he should only share his concerns over past events with her.
The following story contains a description of a sexual assault and may be upsetting for readers.
Feeling better as she recovered from the difficult birth of her daughter, the West Side woman decided to take the 6-month-old girl for a late afternoon walk on the nearby Camp Chase Trail.
She was pushing the stroller on the path when she was confronted by a 16-year-old boy, armed with a handgun, who stole her cellphone and fled. Minutes later, he returned, forcing the 35-year-old woman off the path and raping her at gunpoint. I could potentially comprehend the motives behind a robbery, even though I had to console my daughter’s cries while he put a gun to my head, the victim said Thursday in a Franklin County Common Pleas courtroom. But she called it unconscionable that the robber would return to rape her while her daughter screamed for her and cried when I couldn’t respond.
EastEnders Mick Carter to contemplate suicide in powerful New Year s Eve storyline
Soap bosses are working with Samaritans on the plot. 16/12/2020
Note: The following article contains discussion of themes including suicide and sexual abuse that some readers may find upsetting.
EastEnders has created a powerful storyline that will see Mick Carter considering suicide in its New Year s Eve episode.
This gripping development will come months after Mick (Danny Dyer) realised he d been sexually abused by his carer Katy Lewis (Simone Lahbib) when he was a child. Kieron McCarron/Jack BarnesBBC
Katy has been manipulating Mick ever since she arrived in Walford, twisting his memories to insist that she was only ever a caring mentor in his youth.