EastEnders Fans Fuming After Devastating Boxing Day Death

EastEnders’ Christmas Day episode left viewers with a million and one questions about what on earth is going on in Albert Square.

On top of whether or not little Dennis Rickman will survive being thrown out of a car, we were left wondering who was the real father of Stacey Branning’s baby, if alcoholic Phil Mitchell will survive his lethal liver disease, if Bobby Beale will get frog-marched to the police station and, most importantly, who was in the boot of the car sent to the scrapyard?

To refresh your memories, Ronnie Mitchell had ordered a couple of her bad boy friends to take Vincent, lock him in the boot of a car all day, and then take the car to be crushed.

However, midway through Christmas she bumped into Vince but didn’t bother asking him about the whole ‘being locked in a car’ thing until it was far too late and the motor had been taken from the garage.

Viewers were left convinced that it was Vincent’s mum, Claudette, or loveable Fatboy who’d had their fate sealed, and when Claudette showed up during the opening scenes of yesterday’s episode, we knew that we were in for some heartache.

As it transpired, Ronnie - who fancies herself as a bit of a criminal mastermind - didn’t actually give the two men a description of Vincent when she asked them to bump him off, instead just saying to murder the person who was driving Vincent’s car.

We mean, we’re no experts but you might want to be a bit more specific next time you plan a murder, 'kay Ron?

Claudette had sent Fatboy to go and collect some ice in Vincent’s car before he left Walford, and the DJ was consequently tied up, gagged, shoved in the boot for nearly 24 hours and then crushed to death, with the sad news being confirmed when an emotional Vincent pulled the character’s blingtastic 'F’ necklace out of the boot.

Needless to say, fans were not happy with the brutal way that Fatboy was killed off - with the character admitting in the past that he was claustrophobic after being locked in small places as a child:

The episode ended with Vincent going to Dot Branning’s home to fob her off with a story about her lodger being given a big DJ job elsewhere and that he won’t be returning home, with a heartbroken Mrs. B being left with nobody after she lost Fats, her grandson, Charlie, and her son, Nick, in the space of one year.

It’s just not fair, is it?

In a strange twist of events, Vincent also decided against telling Ronnie what she had done - instead saying that the boot of the car was empty.

Will she ever find out that she murdered innocent Fatboy in the most horrific way possible? Well, we all know that in Walford nothing ever stays a secret for long…