EASTENDERS fans have been left demanding that one character meets a grisly end amid a bombshell prison twist on the soap.
Fuming fans were left livid when murderer Reiss Colwell allowed his pregnant partner Sonia to be jailed for his crimes in today’s episode of the BBC programme.
It was confirmed that Sonia would be heading straight to prison at the end of the episode as she was hauled away by guards ready to send her down accused of being Debbie Colwell’s killer.
Fans of the show know that Reiss smothered his comatose wife to death as he became plagued by a financial crisis.
He decided to kill her in order to free up the care costs for her after falling into debts with his new partner Sonia’s IVF treatment.
The residents of Walford were all left scratching their heads as to why Sonia would be charged with such a crime but it became clear they had a bad feeling when it came to Reiss.
In the episode, Sonia, at the encouragement of a suspicious Jack Branning, asked Reiss outright if he had killed Debbie.
When he denied it, she continued to back and defend him as she was faced with life behind bars.
She panicked over the stress she was enduring amid her high-risk pregnancy as well as fearing her baby would be taken away from her upon birth in prison.
Sonia went on to say: “Look around you, this is where I am going to be pregnant, this is where I’m going to have our baby.”
Reiss then added: “I won’t let that happen.”
Appearing as though he could confess, he went on to say: “I need to tell you something.”
Sure enough they were soon disturbed by the guard taking Sonia down and Reiss never got to say what he appeared to be planning on.
Now, fans of the show have been left raging at Reiss’ deplorable actions of allowing a pregnant Sonia to be jailed.
Taking to X – formerly Twitter – one fan said: “Honestly kill Reiss off at this point. I can’t stand him.”
Another added: “Reiss keeps saying he’s going to do everything he can to get innocent, pregnant Sonia out of prison. but I’m yet to see him admit to murder so she can be free.”
Before a third said: “The Sonia/Reiss/Debbie storyline is p***ing me offffff. How can Sonia still defend Reiss? He has lied since day 1, why can’t she see he may be lying about killing Debbie.”
As a fourth commented: “Getting fed up of Reiss.”
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