The following article contains spoilers from an episode of Emmerdale that hasn’t aired on ITV yet, but is available to view on ITVX. Tom King (James Chase) was feeling quite confident by the end of Tuesday’s Emmerdale, telling his solicitor Ollie (Alistair Toovey) that he was confident Belle Dingle (Eden Taylor-Draper) wouldn’t testify against him at his trial. ‘I’m a free man,’ he boasted.
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Tom’s latest manipulative move saw him fake an attempt at suicide in prison. Being a vet, he knew just how much damage to inflict on himself to make things look realistic but at no real risk to him. But as news got back to Belle about what had happened, she was terrified that the attempt had been real and that if Tom had died the blame would lie with her for putting him under so much pressure.
To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video. Up Next. This was exactly how Tom hoped she’d react, because it had worked when he pretended to take an overdose when they were staying in the cottage in Wales.
In the village, Belle’s family tried to support her and encouraged her to testify regardless. She wasn’t convinced, and headed to see Paddy Kirk (Dominic Brunt) to try to understand more about how Tom might be feeling. Paddy, whose mental health once became so bad that he seriously considered taking his own life, knew he couldn’t speak for Tom but he had some advice for Belle.
