The decision was taken to kill Kerry off and Hartley-Clark thought that the end was "certainly final." The actress believed it was the "only logical way" to write her character out, as Joe and Kerry would not have just ended their marriage. She quipped, "If you're going to go, you might as well go with a bang! Producers had months to plan Kerry's death and Josephine Monroe, author of "Neighbours: The First 10 Years", noted that they chose to make it as poignant as possible. On-screen, a newly wed Kerry became pregnant, she was finally accepted into the Mangel family by her stepson Toby (Finn-Greentree Keane; Ben Guerens), and she was persuaded to return to her campaigning roots. On 10 September 1990, a heavily pregnant Kerry went to protest against duck hunting with her friend Amber Martin (Alison Whyte). Kerry was hit by a stray bullet and both she and her unborn child died. Kerry became the second regular character to die in "Neighbours", following Daphne Clarke's (Elaine Smith) death in 1988.