nearly three months after the character's death, dennis became the posthumous catalyst for the get johnny week storyline in which phil and grant - known as "the mitchell brothers" - sought to help sharon avenge his death by bringing johnny to justice; in the end, dennis death is avenged when his killer danny was shot dead by his brother jake (joel beckett) while johnny was forced by his daughter ruby (louisa lytton) to surrender himself to the police after she discovered that her father is responsible for dennis' murder - the result of which later caused johnny to die of a fatal heart attack following his life imprisonment sentence for dennis' murder. sharon later gave birth to her and dennis' son, denny, and in early january 2014 eventually learned the truth about dennis' death from phil.