This article contains spoilers from Monday’s (March 11) EastEnders, which has not yet aired on TV but is available to watch now on BBC iPlayer.
Eddie Knight (Christopher Fairbank) is due to stand trial for the murder of Henry Kofi Asare in EastEnders, and recent scenes have seen him find a way ensure he gets away with it.
George Knight (Colin Salmon) was left horrified when he discovered that his adopted dad had been charged with a racially motivated murder and wanted him to stand up in court as a character witness.
He was even more stunned to discover that the man Eddie had been accused of murdering was George’s birth father.
This left George with a lot of questions about his birth family, and led him to take a DNA test in the hope that he would be able to track down some of his other relatives.
Unfortunately, recent scenes revealed that the DNA test had offered no answers, leaving George disappointed.
With encouragement from Elaine Peacock and Cindy Beale (Harriet Thorpe and Michelle Collins), George finally worked up the courage to reveal the truth about Eddie’s murder trial to a shocked Gina and Anna (Francesca Henry and Molly Rainford).
When Gloria Knight (Elizabeth Counsell) later called the pub hoping to speak to George, a devastated Anna put the phone down, insisting that George didn’t want to speak to her.
This left Eddie furious, as he had hoped that Gloria would have been able to persuade George to be his character witness the following day.
Determined to draw a line under his relationship with his adopted parents, George paid Eddie and Gloria a visit with the intention of telling them that he wanted nothing more to do with them.
However, Eddie managed to stop him from leaving by revealing that he had information about George’s birth mother.
George was left stunned as Eddie promised to tell him what he knew, but only if George agreed to be his character witness.
Is George set to free Eddie in a bid to find his birth mother?
