EastEnders characters who went to prison – murders, surprise verdicts and fraud

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EastEnders, after he fails to confess the full extent of his prison sentence to Kat Slater.Worried he might be put on remand, DCI Keeble later revealed his fate to him, and asked him to become a police informant - otherwise he would go to prison.However Phil said he was not a "grass" and told DCI Keeble that he would not go through with it.With Phil's prison fate seeming more and more likely, will he agree to the deal?

Or will he be put behind bars?Many of Phil Mitchell's fellow Albert Square residents have served time in jail before him, and here, Daily Star takes a look at some of the most memorable characters who were sent to prison.'Dirty' Den Watts has had a villainous past and was part of some of the soap's biggest storylines, including handing divorce papers to wife Angie Watts and fathering a baby with Michelle Fowler.However in 1988, the pub owner was forced to turn himself into the police after a criminal gang called The Firm intended to kill him.The only way he could escape The Firm, was to turn himself in and take the rap for an arson attack that happened a few years before.He was later remanded in custody in prison at HMP Dickens Hill, but on his way to his trial in 1989, The Firm hijacked the vehicle and kidnapped Den.Though he managed to escape, he was later shot by an unknown gunman and fell into a canal, leaving viewers presuming that he was dead - until his shock return to the square 14 years later. 'Nasty' Nick Cotton was another of Albert Square's most notorious criminals, serving time in HMP Dickens Hill for drug dealing.During his time in prison, he came face to face with Den Watts, later confessing to the murder of Reg Cox - the man who was killed in the very first episode of EastEnders in 1985.He.