List of East Enders Characters (1990) - Jasmine O'Brien

Jasmine O'Brien is the daughter of Disa O'Brien (Jan Graveson), who gives birth to her daughter alone, in a derelict building, on Christmas Day 1990. She abandons the child in a cardboard box on Diane Butcher's (Sophie Lawrence) doorstep. Diane cares for the baby in secret, with the help of her friend Mark Fowler (Todd Carty), until they track Disa down and threaten to hand the baby over to Social Services unless she returns to Walford with them. Disa does so, under protest, and lives in Mo Butcher's (Edna Doré) vacant flat on Albert Square. With the help of Diane and Dot Cotton (June Brown), Disa begins to bond with her daughter, who is originally named Billie, but later renamed Jasmine.

Unbeknown to everyone else, Disa's baby is the product of sexual abuse by her stepfather Ken Raynor (Ian Redford). Ken arrives in Walford and tricks Dot into allowing him to see the baby by pretending he is Disa's concerned uncle. He then kidnaps Jasmine. Ken wants Disa back under his control, but Dot, with police assistance, tricks him into meeting her, and leads him straight into the hands of the police. The baby is returned to Disa, and Ken is imprisoned.

With the possibility that Ken could be released, Disa is forced to admit to the sexual abuse he had subjected her to. Disa and her mother Sandra visit Ken in prison to confront him. Disgusted, Sandra informs Ken that she and her children will be testifying in court to ensure that he is imprisoned for a very long time. Reunited with her mother, Disa takes Jasmine back to their home in Sunderland.