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Casualty fans left 'sobbing' as iconic character Charlie Fairhead bows out after being brutally stabbed - following 38-years and 900 episodes
The Senior charge nurse, played by Derek Thompson since the show's inception in 1986, had been left with his life hanging in the balance following last week's cliffhanger.
As Charlie lay in a coma and his colleagues battled to save his life a flashback was shown of his early career as he dealt with the tragic aftermath of a nail bomb in 1980s London. As Charlie lay in a coma and his colleagues battled to save his life a flashback was shown of his early career as he dealt with the tragic aftermath of a nail bomb in 1980s London Charlie was mentored in his youth by gruff Matron Shirley, played by EastEnders' Anette Badland, who was every inch the dedicated nurse he would become, before he was left devastated when she died shortly before her retirement.
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