EastEnders characters accuse Chrissie Watts of Christmas Day killing

EastEnders characters Kat Slater and Jasmine Fisher have accused Chrissie Watts of killing Anthony Trueman in the BBC soap’s Boxing Day episode.

It comes after the soap’s Christmas Day episodes saw Anthony (Nicholas Bailey) declared dead by Kat (Jessie Wallace) after she found his body in the Queen Vic pub, near to her daughter Zoe Slater (Michelle Ryan), who had passed out next to him after being thrown against a banister.

At the end of the latest episode, Jasmine (Indeyarna Donaldson-Holness), who is the daughter of Anthony, could be seen telling Kat about how she and Chrissie (Tracy-Ann Oberman) had planned to torment Zoe.

Jasmine said: “She just kept wanting to go further, and even today she said something, Chrissie could be, you know, she could talk in riddles, you know, if that’s the word, like, you don’t really understand what someone’s saying, not exactly.

“Today she said something about Zoe deserving what was coming for her, like there was something more than what we had planned, and the fire, I started it OK, but it was her idea, she’s capable of this.

“She said I had to get out of there before the police turned up.”

Kat then asked her how Chrissie would know the police were going to turn up unless she knew Anthony was dead.

Jasmine added: “She said if I dobbed her in she’s going to come for me.”

Kat then asked her if she thought Chrissie killed Anthony, to which she replied: “Yeah, I think she did.”

Kat then said: “I think that’s it, she’s killed Anthony, and she’s trying to frame Zoe, Chrissy killed Anthony.”

The Christmas Day episodes saw a tussle break out after Zoe became angry at Anthony, who had lied to Kat about Zoe’s two long-lost children being dead.

Finding her on the landing, Kat woke Zoe up and said: “Zoe, Zoe, wake up… what have you done? Look at me, what have you done? Zoe, he’s dead.”

Anthony had lied to Kat as he was angry after discovering he was the father of the twins Zoe gave birth to and abandoned in the hospital in 2006, after believing her daughter to be dead.

Zoe had also been angry at Anthony as she wrongly believed him to be the person who had been making sinister threats towards her.

Having found his body, Kat responded by switching off the electricity in the pub and forcing Alfie Moon (Shane Richie) to tell the punters to get out.

Soon after, Zoe went downstairs as she could hear music playing from the pub, believing it to be the son she had abandoned years ago and had recently attempted to meet up with.

Instead, she found Chrissie, and it was revealed that she has been the mastermind behind Zoe’s torment.

Kat asked her how long she had been in the pub, presumably to figure out if she could have killed Anthony, to which Chrissie said: “Just got here, why?”

Chrissie’s plan has involved teaming up with Jasmine, and turning her against her mother as revenge for her involvement in the death of Den Watts, who Chrissie had actually murdered.

Jasmine entered the pub and shouted at Zoe: “You couldn’t be bothered to stick around the hospital long enough to hear me cry. Maybe I should be flattered, because at least you didn’t just abandon me like you did my brother.”

The storyline is reminiscent of Zoe’s most iconic scenes, when she screamed at Kat, who she believed to be her sister, “you ain’t my mother”, to which Kat yelled back: “Yes I am.”

At the end of the second episode, the emergency services arrived at the scene and Zoe was seen walking over to a police officer and saying: “It’s me you want.”

Actor Bailey, 54, was also seen on the Strictly Come Dancing festive special on Christmas Day, and performed a Viennese waltz to It’s The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year by Andy Williams.

EastEnders is available on BBC iPlayer.