Cassie Turner

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Cassie Turner
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Gender	Female
Relatives	Joy Turner (grandmother) (deceased) Ben Foxton (uncle)
Portrayed by	Sharni Vinson

Cassandra "Cassie" Turner is a fictional character on the Australian television soap opera series Home & Away. The character is played by actress Sharni Vinson.

[edit] History

Cassie made her first appearance in episode 3920 when she arrived on the beach riding a jet-ski and met Ric Dalby. (It turned out that Cassie had actually stolen the jet-ski.)

She eventually disclosed that she was molested by her uncle, Ben Foxton, as a child. When her grandmother, Joy, died, she was taken in by the Saunders family. Her relationship with Ric has suffered many problems including her jealousy over Ric and Matilda's obvious closeness, keeping secrets from each other and a clash of their strong egos. Flynn's death has put further strain on their relationship plus Cassie has found a rival for Ric's affections in troublesome newcomer Belle Taylor, the disagreeable misfit who Cassie understandably has taken an instant dislike to. The animosity between Cassie and Belle boiled over into a vicious catfight when Cassie caught her bitter rival with Ric. Ric and Cassie broke up for good after both agreeing that the relationship was not worth all the trouble. Ric also fell in love... Cassie was forced to move on and did so by falling for Martha's brother Macca who had arrived in town to visit his sister. Sally was disturbed by the age difference between Macca and Cassie, and Martha was worried as her brother had a reputation for being fickle with girls. Sally clashed with Cassie over the relationship especially when Cassie was caught out for underage drinking. Eventually Cassie was forced to break up with Macca when he told her that he was leaving town. She was delighted when Macca returned but he started showing an aggressive side to his personality caused by his drug abuse. He lashed out a number of times and hit Cassie.

Now that Macca was out of the picture Ric and Cassie are back together and trust each other now more than before. Ric and Cassie are also becoming very concerned about how depressed Matilda has become following her injuries in the explosion, her problems with Lucas and the fear that her brother Robbie and sister Kit could be dead. She still has some rivalry with bitter Belle, whom Ric dumped to get back with Cassie. Cassie thinks Ric is her 'true' love until she sees Belle kissing Ric. At first, Cassie doesn't want to listen to Ric, but then it all backfires when she sees the two talking on the beach. Cassie slaps Belle. While the girls are arguing, Amanda gets involved but pushes Cassie over.

Macca came back and Cassie realised that she still had feelings for him (since Ric was out of town at that time), soon though Ric came back at it wasn't long when he found out about Cassie's affair. Dejected, he told Cassie that their relationship is over for good. Once the bay knew, she was ostracised and shunned by her family and friends. Feeling lonely, she decided to leave for a new life in the city in the final episode of the 2006 season.