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Stuart Marvin Highway is the son of Jonno Highway, brother of Callum and father of Zara and Roland Highway. He is also the husband of Rainie Highway. He made his first appearance on 8 May 2018 and his last appearance on 25 August 2022.

Backstory[]

When Callum was eight or nine, three boys, the McCarthy brothers call Stuart to come outside, and Vi makes Callum beg Stuart to stay indoors. Stuart says it doesn’t matter if he wins or loses as long as he puts up a fight. Stuart is beaten badly, but he still won. The brothers never bothered Stuart again. Before Stuart moves to Walford, he had a friend named Rosie. At one point, the two of them went on a drug binge, however when Stuart woke up, Rosie was still unconscious. Stuart did not call her an ambulance, resulting in her death.

Storylines[]

Stuart arrives in a blacked-out car, watching Mick Carter, though the car's arrival worries several other people. While Mick is alone in The Queen Victoria pub, a masked man grabs him. However, this is proven to be a prank by Stuart, who says he has been watching Mick all day. They head to the bar of the pub, where Mick's wife, Linda Carter, is not happy to see Stuart. Stuart's brother, Callum Highway, talks about how he was injured in Iraq by shrapnel, but Stuart later tells Halfway he knows he is lying and to tell him what really happened. Stuart showed his darker side as he tricked Mick into thinking he slept with Hayley. Stuart also had a violent outburst when someone hid his phone for a prank. Mick saw photos on Stuart's phone which made him think Stuart was a paedophile. Stuart later said he was actually hunting them down. That moment, he met up with Gavin Thompson who was there to meet a 14 year old girl. Stuart said there is no 14 year old, and that Gavin has actually been talking to Stuart, who makes a citizens arrest. Stuart ends his stint as a paedophile hunter after beating up a man named Fred Lewis who he mistakenly identified as a paedophile. Stuart later reveals to Callum his obsession with paedophile hunting was because he was sexually abused as a child.

When Tina returns from her holiday to Spain, she meets Stuart. They had previously been friends in her childhood. They decide to celebrate their reconnection by attending an 80s night at the E20 nightclub. Stuart requests a song named "We Call It Accieed" which gives Tina a flashback to her childhood where a boy in her and Mick's friend group tortured her in a car. This makes her believe Stuart did it to her. Tina tells Mick and Linda, who cut Stuart from their lives. As revenge, Stuart keys his car and tells everyone in the Square that Tina did it. Tina confronts Stuart in The Archers garage about this. They have an argument, which leads to Tina hitting him over the head with a wrench. Stuart tells the police this, leading to Tina being arrested but later being released.

Stuart terrorises Mick and Linda after this event, culminating in his shooting in the Queen Victoria. It is revealed that he shot himself, however he frames Mick for his shooting, sending Mick to prison. Stuart has a friend inside who essentially presides over every prisoner, and asks him to tell everyone in the prison that Mick is a paedophile, therefore making Mick's time in prison incredibly tricky. Whilst Mick is imprisoned we are aware that Stuart currently lives in Canning Town, but this changes when Linda invites him to live with her and help out behind the bar at the Queen Vic. She pretends to be on Stuart's side so can eventually close enough to him to admit that Mick didn't shoot him, this includes pretending to flirt with him to make out she is attracted to him.

Mick is released from prison and tries to scare Stuart out of Walford, however he returns soon enough to live with Dot Branning.

Dr. Legg goes to live with Dot in Albert Square in October 2018, and revealed that he has pancreatic cancer. While Dr Legg is visiting Dot, Stuart is also residing there and helps around the house and talks to Dot. Dr Legg appears to be sceptical of Stuart's intentions. After Dot has gone to bed, Dr Legg tells Stuart he got him wrong and thinks he is a good person. Stuart thanks him, and pulls out a wallet from his back pocket. He tells Dr Legg that it is his wallet and that he left it in the kitchen. Dr Legg looks inside and notices his photo of his wife is gone, as Stuart walks out and says "night-night" with a grin.

In the aftermath of his first year on the square we see him retconned and desperately trying to turn over a new leaf and be a good person, he looks out for Bex Fowler particularly when her mental health declines causing her to attempt suicide though Sonia Fowler, Martin Fowler and Kush Kazemi don't react positively to his good intentions initially. When Sonia Fowler realises his intentions were honourable they remain friends as a result, we also see him romance Rainie Cross and help her get clean, and find work to support them when she is in prison for a while. We even see him get concerned for Mick Carter when his social worker returns in his life who later is found guilty of raping him when in care. His temper is always on the surface though, particularly when it comes to looking out for his wife - tensions with Rainie's ex-husband Max Branning, Ian Beale and his dad Jonno Highway, Phil Mitchell given how protective he is over his brother. We also see him overcome his homophobia when he finds out his brother is gay and having an affair with Ben Mitchell whilst engaged to Whitney Dean as well, and accept Callum for who he is and his subsequent relationship with Ben after the affair is exposed. He tries to reconcile with his daughter Zara by inviting her to his wedding with Rainie, but she remains estranged with him over how he behaved with Mick and Linda. However, he took in his grandmother Vi Highway when she was kicked out by her son, their Dad Jonno.

At the end of 2021, he was hiding his recent breast cancer diagnosis from Rainie and pushing her away as a result. He was only confiding in Sonia about this who was trying to get him to tell Rainie. In the meantime both Stuart and Rainie were trying to find his grandmother Vi who he had previously been kicked out in shock at finding out she had put another son, their long-lost uncle Christopher Highway up for adoption as she was in her mid-fifties at the time of giving birth and also that he has Down's Syndrome. He didn't react well to the discovery, accusing her of hypocrisy given she refused to take both him and Callum in her care when they were younger and going through issues with their Dad. She left Walford in shame and wasn't answering neither of Stuart's or Callum's calls or messages. In 2023, Vi mentions that Stuart now works as a Taxidermy. She later joins him and Rainie to be a live-in nanny.

Kill count[]

Murders/manslaughter victims[]

  1. Dylan Box (14 December 2018) (unconfirmed) - Made Dylan make a confession to shooting him, when Dylan refused Stuart held him over a river threatening to drown him. Unknown if Stuart killed him or let him go.

Connected murders and deaths[]

  1. Rosie (prior to 2018) - Left her to die of a drug overdose in a panic.

Attempted murder victims[]

  1. Ben Mitchell (5 July 2019) (unconfirmed) - Savagely beat Ben in the Arches and left him laying unconscious on the floor, unclear if he intended to kill Ben or just give him a heavy beating.
  2. DI Steve Thompson (4 December 2020, revealed on 15 December 2020) - Punched Thompson to ground for tormenting his brother Callum, when Stuart thought he'd killed Thomson he hid him in a coffin in the Funeral Parlor, Thompson returned alive weeks later.


Employment history[]

Occupation Years Active
Builder Prior to 2018
Various jobs for Kathy Beale 2019
Undertaker at Coker & Mitchell 2019-2022
Taxidermy 2023 to present

Residence[]

Address Years
Canning Town Prior to 2018
25 Albert Square 2019
53A Turpin Road 2019-2022
Unknown 2023 to present

See also[]

Background information[]

  • In August 2022 Stuart revealed he has pictures of Duck's on his phone.
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