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Johnny Allen

Contents 1 Overview 2 Family ties 3 Relationship history 4 Summary 5 Related links

Overview

Character:	Johnny Allen
Played by:	Billy Murray
Dates on screen:	4 January 2005 to 31 March 2006, 13 October 2006 to 20 October 2006

Family ties

Daughters:

Scarlet Allen · Ruby Allen

Relationship history

Deceased wives:	Stephanie Allen
Ex-girlfriends:	Tina Stewart

Summary

Johnny's well-mannered and charming on the outside, but you cross him at your peril. He's the type to keep his friends close and his enemies closer. After his wife and older daughter were killed in an arson fire started by gangland enemies, Johnny returned to his Albert Square roots, with his younger daughter Ruby and longtime mistress, Tina Stewart, in tow. After buying Angie's Den, Johnny re-opened the club as Scarlet (named for his late daughter).

During his time in Walford, he murdered rival gangster Andy Hunter, set up housekeeping with Tina, drove Jake and Danny Moon out of Walford (after Danny set his house on fire) and confessed to having had feelings for Pat in his youth.

For several months, he's tried to be a legitimate businessman. Peggy Mitchell then threw a spanner in the works by publicly accusing Johnny of being a murderer. Ruby left their house and Johnny confessed that Peggy's accusations were true. Ruby refused to come home and Johnny set his sights for revenge on Peggy. Johnny also began an apparently meaningless affair with Amy, the barmaid he hired at Scarlet, costing him what little respect his daughter had left for him and his relationship with Tina.

When Dennis Rickman threatened to implicate him in Andy Hunter's murder, Johnny choked Sharon, telling her that she and Dennis had better leave Walford for good. When Dennis learned of this, he beat Johnny almost to death, throwing Johnny a lifeline in the form of a mobile phone. Johnny apparently used the phone to arrange for Dennis' murder. Meanwhile, Johnny's outrage that his precious Ruby was dating ne'er-do-well Juley Smith reached new levels when he found out Phil Mitchell had paid Juley to date and deflower Ruby. The feud between Johnny and Phil reached fever pitch, to end in an uneasy truce when Johnny learned Phil had saved Ruby's life when she stopped breathing due to alcohol poisoning.

No-one imagined that this truce would last if Phil returned to Walford, and indeed it did not. Johnny essentially kidnapped Ruby and kept her 'protected' at his multi-million pound manor house in Essex. Interestingly, Johnny, a gangster who evaded capture for his entire 40-year career because of his canny personnel choices, chose the mentally ill Danny Moon to act as he and his daughter's sole bodyguard. The folly of this choice became apparent when the Mitchell brothers turned up to avenge Dennis's murder. Johnny unwisely charged Danny with eliminating the Mitchells and, for some unfathomable reason, seemed surprised when that plan went awry.

Johnny then agreed to confess to 40 years of crime so that Ruby would keep the name Allen and continue to acknowledge him as her father. From his prison cell Johnny ordered Jake back to Walford to look after his business interests and to look out for Ruby, and for a while the arrangement worked well. However the arrival of money hungry Sean Slater and his rapid entanglement with Ruby was more than Jake could deal with, and he contacted Johnny with his concerns. A brief, heated meeting with Sean confirmed to Johnny that Ruby's judge of character was as inept as ever. Consumed with hatred for Sean, Johnny planned to order the murder of his daughter's boyfriend, but in his fury, he suffered a fatal heart attack, his final intentions were misconstrued and it was Jake who paid the ultimate price.

Related links

This character is deceased