This is a family tree that has branches wrapped around the trunk, rather than extending away from it.
After Lisa (Lucy Benjamin) stated in public that Sharon has been having an affair – information which her now-dead best friend Mel (Tamzin Outhwaite) had passed onto her – Phil had begun to suspect that perhaps Sharon had indeed been playing away.
Over a few weeks those suspicions swirled around Phil’s mind, until they began to form into a dead certainty.
As he cast his mind back, he considered how Jack Branning (Scott Maslen) had been comforting Sharon at the funeral, it seemingly more than friendly.
