While EastEnders viewers everywhere may well know that it was Bobby Beale who killed Lucy, the Walford police force are still very much in the dark.
Which explains why, in Friday’s episode of the show, they arrested Ben Mitchell for the crime, having become convinced he was the prime suspect.
And after several fruitless attempts by Phil to protect his son, the law finally caught up with Ben – who was carted off in a police car as the episode reached its end.
Although to be honest, the fact that most viewers remained unimpressed by his attempts to escape the rozzers rather put a dampener on the shock twist: