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EastEnders fans have slammed the way the police handled Ronnie and Roxy Mitchell's deaths on tonight's emotional episode.
As Jack Branning sat absorbing the awful news that his new wife and her sister had drowned in their hotel pool, viewers were quick to tweet their anger at the policewoman handling the case and her family liaison officer.
DI Sara Davenport started things off by telling Jack's brother Max about the deaths before she'd even contacted Jack – Roxy's next of kin – and went further by getting Max to identify Roxy's body by showing him pictures on her phone – presumably a big police no-no.
(Photo: BBC)
(Photo: BBC)
She then tried to stop Max from being with Jack when she finally told him the awful news – and even got snappy with him when he tried to stop her from blurting it out in front of Jack's kids.
Rather than knock on the door of Jack's honeymoon suite, she got the hotel manager to open the door herself, then blundered right in to where Jack was lying in bed asleep with his arms curled around his little son and daughter.
(Photo: BBC)
(Photo: BBC)
After DI Davenport had dispatched the news, she immediately demanded statements from both Max and Jack, who was still sitting on the end of his bed in tears.
She and the liaison officer, DS Anderson, then left the room to search Ronnie's - they didn't say what for - leaving Jack completely alone.
Viewers were outraged by the cops' behaviour and took to Twitter to register their wrath.