Who is Eddie Knight in EastEnders and why is he in prison?

Eddie isn’t a nice man… (Picture: BBC/Jack Barnes/Kieron McCarron)

While Eddie Knight’s (Christopher Fairbank) original tenure in EastEnders was brief, he made an indelible impact on Albert Square with his utter evilness.

The adoptive and very estranged father of George Knight (Colin Salmon) left his son’s new partner, Nicola Mitchell (Laura Doddington), horrified when she followed a trail of missed calls to his hospital bed, a stark contrast from the prison we last saw him in.

While...