juley starts to fall in love with ruby and decides to call it off with phil, who orders juley to give back all the money he has been paid. juley had put some of the money into his brother gus's fund to see his dog, wellard, who has been arrested for biting ian beale (adam woodyatt). gus catches juley with the money, and forces juley into confessing about his working for phil. in january 2006, phil wants juley to end his relationship with ruby, saying if juley doesn't end it, he will tell johnny the truth and johnny will most likely kill juley. juley breaks up with ruby in the harshest way he can, despite his true feelings. johnny is released from hospital and finds out about phil paying juley. johnny threatens to kill juley if he ever goes near ruby again. realising he is making a mistake juley attempts to get ruby back, and she eventually agrees to try again. however, she realises that she cannot trust him when she finds herself questioning his phone calls. when ruby returns to walford after her father's arrest, juley talks to her in the market to see if she is okay, but is badly beaten by johnny's employee, jake moon (joel beckett).