EastEnders spoilers: Evil Dean Wicks manipulates ailing Jade Masood to lie to doctors about her illness

Dean Wicks (Matt Di Angelo) has been tampering with Jade Masood’s (Elizabeth Green) antibiotics in EastEnders, but unbelievably he was prepared to stoop even lower in recent scenes.

Jade recently revealed that she was planning to move to Pakistan with mum Shabnam as soon as she was well enough, which led possessive Dean to take drastic action against his daughter.

After she was diagnosed with a chest infection and given antibiotics, Dean began to empty out the capsules before giving them to her, so that she wouldn’t get better and would have to stay with him for longer.

In Monday night’s (March 18) episode, Jean Slater (Gillian Wright) was left worried when Jade had a serious coughing fit, and she soon managed to get a doctor to come round for an emergency appointment.

When Dean returned home and found out that the doctor was on his way, he instantly panicked about being found out.

In a shocking move, he manipulated Jade into lying to the doctor in a bid to save his own skin.

While the doctor was washing his hands, Dean told Jade he would likely send her back to hospital – somewhere Jade really didn’t want to be.

Dean managed to persuade Jade to lie to the doctor and tell him that she was feeling better in order to avoid a trip to hospital and, surprisingly, it worked.

However, Jean wasn’t very happy with the doctors assessment, and pointed out to Dean that Jade should have been admitted to hospital.

It was clear that Dean was fed up of Jean getting involved, and was soon insisting that she leave.

With the doctor gone, it seemed as though Dean had gotten away with it, until Jade came through holding his phone.

She revealed that he had been ignoring Shabnam’s calls and texts, and demanded answers.

Will Dean be able to talk his way out of it?