List of minor EastEnders characters (1994)

The following is a list of minor characters that first appeared in the BBC soap opera EastEnders in 1994, by order of first appearance.

Carmen
Carmen was introduced in February 1994, employed by Richard Cole to work on Sanjay Kapoor's clothing stall on Bridge Street market. Carmen began to pester Richard to give her the licence for the pitch on a permanent basis. However, later that month Sanjay returned, having failed to trace the whereabouts of his estranged wife, Gita.

Following this, Carmen began selling heart-shaped covered boxer-shorts on the market and a pair was sent anonymously to Richard Cole. Richard assumed they were from a secret admirer, until he saw Carmen selling them the following day. She told him that they weren't a popular line and that she'd only had one buyer, Sanjay Kapoor. Sanjay had bought them to prank Richard, but as Bianca Jackson and Natalie Price had spent the last few weeks winding him up in a similar way, he did not find the prank amusing.

Dougie Briggs
Dougie Briggs appeared for several weeks over the spring of 1994, and was actively involved in the storyline that marked the introduction of EastEnders' third weekly episode, The Queen Vic Siege.

Dougie had been a paratrooper alongside Grant Mitchell in the Falklands War, and met up with him again more than 10 years later, by which time Grant was the landlord of The Queen Vic. Grant allowed Dougie to stay at The Vic, despite his wife Sharon's objections. Sharon began to feel uncomfortable around Dougie after noticing him leering at her on several occasions, but Grant refused to ask him to leave.

Dougie persuaded Grant to help him out with a raid on a supermarket, promising him a vast financial return, but Grant started to have second thoughts when he found Dougie's sawn-off shotgun. After doing some investigating, Grant disovered that Dougie had been discharged from the paratroopers because psychological tests had revealed that he was psychopathic. Dougie tried to stop the Medical Officer from filing the results, and when he refused Dougie shot him in the head and then raped his wife. Realising that he had left Sharon alone in the Vic with a convicted murderer and rapist, Grant fled home and arrived just as Dougie was attempting to sexually assault Sharon. A fight ensued and Grant was knocked unconscious, after which Dougie held Grant, Sharon and barmaid Michelle Fowler hostage with his shotgun, and demanded money.

The gun went off when Grant tried to claim it and Michelle got in the way of a stray bullet and ended up in a pool of blood on the Vic's floor. Grant overpowered Dougie, and beat him unconscious, but he was forced to leave him in the Vic while he took Michelle to hospital. He contacted his brother Phil to get rid of Dougie's body and gun, but by the time Phil arrived at the Vic, Dougie had escaped. Grant was convinved that Dougie would return for revenge, however he was apprehended by the police before he could get to the Vic.

Elizabeth Willmott-Brown
Elizabeth Willmott-Brown (née Bassett) was the wife of rapist, James Willmott-Brown. One of James' victims, Kathy Beale, began to have a recurring nightmare about her rape in 1994. Her boyfriend, Phil Mitchell, decided to go in search of James to scare him away. He traced him to Elizabeth's home, but she told him that James was not in and she was unsure when he would be back. Phil wouldn't give up however, and when Elizabeth left her house many hours later, he demanded that she tell him where James was because he had raped his girlfriend. Elizabeth then got angry and told Phil she was well aware that James was a rapist, but she was trying to protect her two children from it. She also revealed that James had been imprisoned for the rape of another woman.

Family

 * Father: Henry Bassett
 * Mother: Dulcie Bassett
 * Son: Luke Willmott-Brown
 * Daughter: Sophie Willmott-Brown