Pat Butcher was killed off from EastEnders in 2012, but Pam has still popped up in the soap from time to time, notably when Barbara Windsor’s Peggy Mitchell died in 2016, and last year, when she appeared as a hallucination to Nigel Bates, a character who has dementia.
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