EASTENDERS fans raged tonight after Ian Beale lied about how Dennis came to die in the boat tragedy to his son Peter. Tearful Ian broke down as he recounted the horrifying moment he tried to save the teenager and failed.
But he left out key elements of the River Thames disaster that saw Sharon Mitchel's son drown - including locking Dennis Rickman in a room on the doomed boat.
Ian had learned he was behind the online bullying of his son Bobby Beale and was out for revenge. Instead of coming clean to suspicious Peter he claimed that Dennis had got so drunk that he trapped himself in the room below deck.
However, a flashback scene aired, which contradiction his faked story, and it left fans of the BBC One soap fuming on Twitter.
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