She returned on 30 October 2013. On 28 November 2014, it was announced that Winward had quit the soap and would leave at the end of her contract. Katie died on 5 February 2015 when she fell through the floorboards after being pushed by her brother-in-law and ex-lover Robert Sugden (Ryan Hawley)[1] and made her final appearance on 9 February as a corpse.