 Tina was killed off in a church explosion on 17 October 2008, shortly after Hackett decided to leave the serial.Tina briefly appeared in a flashback on 20 November 2014 when the McQueen family remember her half-sister Carmel Valentine (Gemma Merna) at her funeral.The character of Tina was introduced in August 2006 as one of the McQueen sisters.