<P> Amy returns when Kevin Foster (Elliot Balchin) tells her that Ste is back together with Brendan . She argues with Ste and he becomes violent grabbing her arm . Amy takes Leah and Lucas home with her not wanting Brendan around them . When Brendan is arrested she returns to visit Ste . She later lets Ste look after his children more often but bans him when he becomes addicted to drugs . In 2014, Amy returns and lets Ste see his kids . When she finds out Ste is with drugs, she bans him . Amy and Mike return to the village in search of Ste . Amy leaves when she discovers Ste has had a drugs relapse . </P> <P> In August 2016, Ste goes to Amy's home and punches Ryan Knight (Duncan James) when he sees him playing with Leah, not realising he is Amy's fiancée . Following this, Amy returns to live in the village with Ryan, Leah and Lucas, engaging in a custody battle with Ste and his boyfriend Harry Thompson (Parry Glasspool). Due to Ste's past convictions and addictions, Amy and Ryan are granted full custody, with Ste only being allowed visits supervised by Amy or Ryan . Following an argument on New Year's Eve 2016, Ryan has sex with Mercedes McQueen (Jennifer Metcalfe), which is filmed by Mercedes' cousin Goldie McQueen (Chelsee Healey). Ryan is desperate to keep this from Amy, however at their engagement party in January 2017, Harry inadvertently gives Amy Goldie's mobile phone, and she shows the footage of Ryan and Mercedes kissing to everybody . She then dumps Ryan and cancels the engagement . Ste later persuades Amy to reconcile with Ryan and organise the wedding, which is held in March 2017, and Ryan and Amy successfully get married . Ryan then asks Amy to move to America with him with Leah and Lucas, which she is reluctant to do at first because of Ste . However, an argument between Ste and Harry at the wedding reception leads to Amy's dress getting ruined, she agrees to leave for America with Ryan and the children . Leah and Lucas accidentally reveal this to Ste, who organises a quick custody hearing, where Ryan and Amy are granted to move to America with the children, devastating Ste . </P> <P> That same night, Amy is murdered by an unknown assailant . Mike and Ryan return home to find Amy lying lifeless on the floor . The whole village is shocked and saddened by the death of the young wife and mother . There are five suspects: Ste, Harry, Ryan, James Nightingale (Gregory Finnegan), and DS Gavin Armstrong (Andrew Hayden - Smith). Ste is the prime suspect because of Amy taking Leah and Lucas away from him . Harry's motive is that he would do anything for Ste . It does not seem at first that Ryan has a motive, but later on it is revealed Ryan had cheated on Amy that night with a man named Kyle Kelly (Adam Rickitt). James did not know Amy personally, but he hates Ste for ruining his relationship with John Paul McQueen (James Sutton) and it is possible he wanted to frame Ste for the murder as revenge . DS Armstrong had stalked several young, blonde attractive women around the village and it is later revealed Amy was one of them . Ste is arrested and charged with the murder . Ste suffered a blackout at the time of Amy's murder, so he cannot defend his whereabouts . During Ste's trial, he discovers Harry accidentally murdered Amy during an altercation when Harry tried to stop her taking the kids to America . In a 8 September 2017 flashback, Harry argues with Amy and she falls and hits her head . Harry flees the scene without calling for help . However, it is revealed in another flashback that Amy was actually still alive after Harry left and another person had killed her . On 10 October 2017, it is revealed that it was Ryan who killed Amy . As seen in a flashback, Ryan arrives home and Amy confronts him about cheating on her with a man . She tells Ryan he left his phone on and she got a voicemail in which she heard everything . She threatens to tell the whole village he is gay and Ryan murders her in a fit of rage . </P> <P> In 2018 when Ste found out that Ryan killed Amy, he never forgive him for what he has done and making his ex-boyfriend Harry in jail and their break . He also mentioned that he used to abused her . </P>

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