EastEnders fans sickened by Kush’s horror train death after saving Gray’s life

EastEnders fans were left sickened this evening after Kush Kazemi was brutally killed off after being shoved in front of a train by abuser-turned-serial killer Gray Atkins.

The moment was particularly tragic as Kush, played by Davood Ghadami, had helped save the lawyer’s life just seconds before.

This is the third victim Gray has claimed after murdering wife Chantelle after leaving her to die skewered on knives from the dishwasher and killing Tina Carter, who discovered what he had done and threatened to expose him.

Kush had been planning to run away with Whitney after he dobbed in the Mitchells for their part in the robbery.

But a furious Gray had followed him to the tube station and confronted him for ‘stealing’ Whitney away from him.

A baffled Kush had noticed him lurking nearby and asked: “Gray, what are you doing? Did you follow us?”

“You shouldn’t have lied to me,” the deranged lawyer responded.

Kush questioned whether he had been drinking, to which Gray responded that he had made Whitney lie to him.

Gray snarled: “You honestly think that you’ve won.”

“Gray, I honestly don’t know what is going on with you,” Kush replied. “Yeah, but if this is about the court case…”

“This isn’t,” Gray snapped. “It’s about Whitney. Where are you taking her?”

Kush refused to tell him and the lawyer replied: “If you think lying low for some weeks in some fleapit hotel is going to just solve your problems, well guess what? The Mitchells are still going to be here when you come back… You’re not coming back. You’re going to force her to leave because of your misdeeds.”

“No one’s going to be forcing anyone,” Kush said before demanding that Gray “calm down and go home”.

As Gray began to jab his finger at him, Kush tried to reason with him.

“I know why you’re angry – you’ve got feelings,” Kush said. “But those feelings aren’t real. You just lost your wife and you’re still grieving so you’ve latched onto Whitney and now she’s leaving, something’s gone, something’s snapped. I think I might understand why you’re upset.”

But Gray was in denial, responding: “No! No, because if you did, you wouldn’t be taking her away from me.”

Kush replied: “She was your childminder for a couple of months and that is it! That’s all it was!”

But Gray insisted: “No! She was everything to me! Without her I have nothing left!”

“It’s all in your head,” Kush replied. “I’m sorry, I’m sorry if that’s how you feel but it is fantasy, Gray. Your brain ain’t right! I think you need help.”

“No,” Gray responded. “I don’t need help – I need Whitney.”

Gray lunged to grapple with Kush, but fell onto the tracks. A frantic Kush managed to pull Gray off the tracks after yelling at him to get up.

Kush exclaimed: “You could have killed yourself!”

But Gray delivered the final blow by turning him around and pushing him in front of a train.

*EastEnders airs weekdays on BBC One