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EastEnders actress died at 29 after being hit over head and chopped up by sick brother


EastEnders star Gemma McCluskie's murder in 2012 shocked the nation after it emerged her own brother, Tony, was the killer – he then packed her body into a suitcase and dumped it

Nonetheless, the horrifying truth was that a heated quarrel led him to murder Gemma in a drug-induced stupor, provoked further when an overflowing bath triggered her demand to leave. In a chilling confession, he revealed that after a failed attempt to dismember his sister's body with a knife, he coldly sought out a meat cleaver, bin liners, and cleaning chemicals. But when the first body part was discovered in the canal two days later, Danny remembered Tony's poignant reaction: "Out of nowhere he walks in and puts his arms round us and he starts saying, please don't let it be Gemma.

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