PAT BUTCHER is one of the most iconic characters to have graced Albert Square. The EastEnders legend lived an extremely colourful life and was one of the BBC soap's longest-running characters ...

Block-jawed, muscular, he used to be a butcher, now laid bricks. In rooms formerly occupied by Dolezal, Pat Lyons found crumbs of human blood between the floor boards, behind the bathtub.