Penny Branning (Kitty Castledine) faced further heartache over the club crush in EastEnders on Thursday, as her father Jack Branning (Scott Maslen) hurtfully admitted she was not his favourite child.

There has been tough times for the Branning family in the wake of the incident at Peggy’s, with Amy Mitchell (Ellie Dadd) fighting for her life in hospital after suffering a cardiac arrest.

Penny was brought in for questioning earlier this week, after police found that extra tickets for the clubnight were released online from her login.

On Thursday, Jack showed little concern for Penny’s fight to prove her innocence, and she pleaded with Chelsea Fox (Zaraah Abrahams) to help, not realising that she was actually responsible for releasing the extra tickets.

A guilty Chelsea tried to cover her tracks by suggesting there must have been a glitch in the ticketing system – something Penny was keen to relay to her father as she visited sister Amy in hospital later that day.

As Penny asked Jack to speak to his police colleagues, Jack accussed her of only visiting Amy in a bid to save her own skin.