Emmerdale bosses have revealed they contemplated letting Meena get away with murder but thought having her character remain in the village would be too dark.
After a week of drama in the courtroom as Meena's murder trial came to a close, viewers sighed in relief as her storyline finally wrapped up. Though the guilty verdict came with a vicious attack, it seems like Meena is being sent down for good.
Viewers saw Meena brutally attacked and shortly take Manpreet as a hostage before making a run for it. After police eventually caught up with her, she's finally been locked away behind bars.
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Kate Brooks, a producer for the ITV soap opera, said Meena could have met a very different fate than the one she did. She admitted the thought of letting Meena run free came to mind but there was something important holding them back.
She said: "She has given us so much storyline recently that of course there is always that temptation to let her get away with it. Both Paige and Rebecca touched on it earlier, but a person who is capable of such heinous crimes and has no remorse can’t stay long in the village; they can’t continue on that path because there is nowhere else for her to go."
Noting other characters would be affected by the decision, she said viewers and the storyline needed to move forward: "We knew that we needed to draw a line under it, not just for the viewers but for our characters who are left, they need justice and need for Meena to be punished for her crimes.
"If they don’t get the closure then there is no way to move them on as characters, so we knew that we had to let Meena’s fate rest in the hands of the soap Gods and so I hope people will be very satisfied with what she gets."
Emmerdale airs weekdays at 7.30pm on ITV and the ITV Hub
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