EastEnders spoilers: Rocky Cotton’s final fate is revealed after Brian Conley’s exit from show
Rocky burnt the café down last year
EastEnders is to issue an update on Rocky Cotton (Brian Conley) after the character was sent down at the end of December.
Fans of the BBC soap will remember that Rocky was responsible for the catastrophic blaze on the Bridge Street Café in November that injured partner Kathy’s (Gillian Taylforth) grandsons Peter (Thomas Law) and Bobby Beale (Clay Milner-Russell).
He’d rigged the electrics in the hope the insurance money would help him pay off his debts to Nish Panesar (Navin Chowdhry) – but it had quite the opposite effect when Nish blackmailed him into getting Kathy to sell the business at a reduced price so he could build a residential property on the land.
With the incident causing his relationship with Kathy to fall apart, Rocky hit the bottle and on Christmas Day witnessed The Six concealing Keanu’s body under the floor of the cafe.
Rocky burnt the café down last year
In the days following he began to piece together key parts of the evening – such as spotting Stacey Slater (Lacey Turner) and Denise Fox (Diane Parish) taking tarpaulin out of a skip.
When fears that he would potentially expose the murder plot began to grow, Kathy was given no option but to report him for starting the fire, ensuring his search history into insurance claims was handed over as evidence.
We last saw him break down in the police interview room just before New Year’s Eve, with the episode signalling the end of actor Brian Conley’s time on the show.
However, upcoming scenes will see Sonia Fowler (Natalie Cassidy) and Elaine Peacock (Harriet Thorpe) invite Kathy to a boozy brunch to take her mind off Rocky’s upcoming sentencing.
But how long will he be locked up for, and will he ever come clean about what he saw last Christmas?
