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Lucy Beale’s EastEnders legacy: Murder mystery to iconic storylines

Lucy Beale in EastEnders: Who was she and when did she die? Who was her lover? Who covered up the crime? Why did her brother Bobby kill her?

Lucy Beale was played by Eve Brittin-Snell and Casey Anne Rothery as a child, with Melissa Suffield taking over the role in 2004. She’d got on the wrong side of Denise Fox, who was engaged to Ian at the time, and crossed paths with Ben Mitchell – who’d recently been released from prison – Jay Brown, and pretty much everyone in the Square. On the night Lucy Beale died in EastEnders, she had been in a furious row with her family because she’d been taking cocaine and had hidden it in her music box, where Ian – tipped off by Cindy Jnr – found it.

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