EastEnders: Sean O’Connor reveals the REAL reason why Roxy and Ronnie Mitchell were killed off on New Year’s Day

EastEnders viewers were left devastated on New Year’s Day when Ronnie, played by Samantha Womack, and Roxy, played by Rita Simons, met a grisly end. 

And now, Sean, who took over the hit BBC One soap from Dominic Treadwell-Collins last year, has revealed why he wanted such a shocking deadly twist. 

“[Ronnie and Roxy] were not the sort of characters that would leave in the back of a taxi,” he admitted at the Royal Television Society, according …