EASTENDERS fans were left heartbroken after Carmel destroys murdered son Shakil's shrine as she breaks down over his death.

They praised actress Bonnie Langford for her emotional performance playing a grief-stricken mum.

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The emotional episode followed Carmel as she struggled to come to terms with the murder of her boy.

Shakil's dad Umar and brother Daruis arrived on the square -  and a row broke out between Darius and Shak's pal Keegan over what happened.

Darius screamed: "Why didn't you tell anyone he'd been stabbed? If he'd got to hospital sooner..."

Keegan sobbed: "I did."

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Meanwhile the episode focused on devastated Carmel, who consoled herself by playing Shak's voicemail message over and over again on her mobile phone.

At one point she says: "Hello my darling boy, I miss you. I don't know what I'm going to do without you."

Earlier on Eastenders, Shak's friends laid out a beautiful floral memorial and a shrine with a candle to remember their friend.

Mick Carter then paid tribute to Shak at Queen Vic gathering.

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He said: "Now we all know what's happened to young Shakil. There's nothing I can say to make it any easier. I think we should remember what a beautiful, smart, talented kid he was.

Carmel finally stumbles out of the house clutching her phone and comes across the shrine in the square for him.

But she breaks down and screams: "Not my baby" and tears it apart.

Mick spots her and tries to calm her down -  but Carmel says: "You. Why didn't you save me son?"

A distraught Mick tears up as the episode ends.

The pub landlord had mistakenly thought Shak was drunk outside the pub after he was stabbed.

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Meanwhile Brooke Kinsella, recently worked with the BBC soap on its latest storyline which saw Shakil Kazemi and Keegan Baker be stabbed by a gang.

The former EastEnders actress became an anti-knife crime campaigner after her half-sibling died aged just 16 following a knife attack in Islington, London.

The storyline has unfolded ten years after her brother Ben was stabbed to death.

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To get find out more information or to donate to the Ben Kinsella Trust visit www.benkinsella.org.uk

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