Who was Shireen in EastEnders and who killed her? Nicola and Teddy twist sealed

EastEnders Nicola and Teddy Mitchell faced a murder accusation (Image: BBC/Jack Barnes/Kieron McCarron)

Shireen in EastEnders has been mentioned a few times over the past year, and in the last two episodes alone things have taken a turn.

Little is known about the mystery character, other than the fact she is the girlfriend of Harry Mitchell who went missing four years ago. Harry, his brother Barney and dad Teddy all fled to Walford to get away from some trouble last year and it was clear the trio were hiding from someone.

It now seems it could be linked to Shireen after Harry faced accusations of killing her from Shireen’s family. Harry’s mum Nicola Mitchell was also trying to track down the trio before her own debut.

Last week things escalated when Nicola claimed to Sharon Watts and Zack Hudson that Teddy was not to be messed with, implying he had something to do with Shireen going missing. Spoilers revealed that this week we would see Shireen’s brother Asad arrive and confront Teddy and Nicola over his sister going missing four years earlier.

EastEnders has teased a mystery storyline for Harry Mitchell’s missing girlfriend Shireen for months(Image: BBC/Jack Barnes/Kieron McCarron)

It seems Asad is convinced Teddy is to blame, with Harry set to confront his dad over the possible crime. But what really happened to Shireen, is she dead and who killed her if so?

Warning, the rest of this article contains spoilers from Monday’s evening episode which is available to watch now on BBC iPlayer. If you want to avoid spoilers until the evening then look away now!

During Monday’s episode we saw Asad accuse Teddy, not Nicola, of killing Shireen. He demanded to know what he had done with her and where she was.

He claimed he’d done some digging and had found witnesses that confirmed after Shireen left the pub the night she vanished, she was followed. He claimed some of Teddy’s men followed Shireen in a van and she was never seen again.

Shireen in EastEnders has been mentioned a few times over the past year(Image: BBC/Jack Barnes/Kieron McCarron)

By the end of the episode though all became clear, as Nicola got into a car with a man named Benji and she made quite the confession. She made it clear she had Benji do a job for her years ago that was not at risk of being exposed.

With that, she asked him where she was, referring to Shireen. When Benji detailed that she was at an industrial estate and that no one would “go digging for her”, it was clear Shireen had been killed by Benji, as requested by Nicola.

If that wasn’t obvious enough, she then said it outright in a confession to Benji, and viewers. She warned him no one could ever find out “she killed that girl”.