ray is angry when a police officer stops him, suspecting him of a mugging. ray claims that the police officer is being racist, but feels he cannot do anything about it, until kim and denise urge him to become a mentor for children facing similar circumstances. with funding from sport england, he successfully starts his mentoring scheme, "fighting fit", at the local boxing club. when denise is feeling sad about being single, ray compliments and kisses her. he thinks denise has told kim, so says denise kissed him, leading to kim and denise falling out after kim slaps her. ray then ends his relationship with kim, saying they are too different, but she continues to send text messages in the hope they will reconcile. ray flirts with kirsty branning (kierston wareing), upsetting kim. a few months later, ray learns that sasha's mother has been in an accident. kim and ray start talking when she asks a favour for her bed and breakfast, while he struggles to cope with caring for sasha and working at the pub. kim helps ray by cooking him dinner, which leads to them kissing. they resume their relationship, but ray decides to leave walford and his job to be closer to sasha. kim agrees to come with him, but at her birthday party, she realises that ray does not know her very well, so she breaks up with him moments before they are due to leave together, and ray leaves alone.