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Finding out who killed Lucy may have been the obvious climax of last night’s EastEnders episodes, but poor old Dot’s arrest also led to a flood of Twitter memes.
Walford’s popular character, played by 88-year-old June Brown, was taken away in a police car on Thursday after confessing to the murder of her son Nick.
Within moments, the #FreeDot campaign was sparked, and here are just a few of the best posts we’ve seen so far:
Elsewhere on EastEnders, celebrating its 30th anniversary with special live shows this week, Lucy’s seemingly cute little brother Bobby Beale was revealed as the murderer.
Tonight the aftermath of Bobby Beale’s crime will be explored in the first entirely live show to round-up the anniversary week.
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The year-long mystery surrounding Lucy’s death is the soap’s biggest whodunit for years, following ‘Who killed Archie’ in 2009 and ‘Who shot Phil Mitchell’ in 2001.
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