ANTHONY Fox was murdered in cold blood on Emmerdale with his attacker finally unmasked after being teased all week.

The grisly scenes saw the village monster beat to death on the depot floor by one enraged character.

Fans of the ITV soap opera discovered that Aaron Dingle was the one who killed him after he figured out the truth about what Anthony had done to Ruby as a child.

Anthony is Steph’s real father, having abused Ruby in her teenage years, despite everyone having believed he was her grandfather.

It had been teased all week that either Chas, Nicola, Laurel, Caleb, Ruby, Aaron or Cain would be the one to deliver the final blow.

All seven of them had run-ins with Anthony and all discovered to an extent the truth of what he was really like.

Earlier in the week, Aaron had witnessed a tense interaction between Ruby and her father which left him deeply troubled.

He confronted Ruby about what went on after recognising “that look” in her eye and seeing just how fearful and traumatised she was to be around her father.

Aaron was sexually abused as a child by his father, Gordon, and eventually saw his father sent down for his crimes before he killed himself in prison.

Although Ruby did not divulge any details to Aaron, he took it upon himself to speak to Anthony and confronted him about it at the depot.

A struggling Anthony denied what Aaron was saying as things began to turn sinister and violent between the pair.

Anthony begged for Aaron not to attack him as he continually roughed him up before he told him that he would be taking him straight down to the police station to confess to raping his own daughter.

As tensions reached an all-time high, Anthony snapped back with vile words to Aaron.

The deeply evil man said: “She [Ruby] never tried to stop me!

“She enjoyed it as much as I did.

“Did you really try to stop your father?”

Seeing red, Aaron screamed as he charged at Anthony before throwing him to the ground and beating him with his bare hands.

Anthony laid on the floor in a semi-conscious state as he spat a knocked out tooth across the depot floor.

Aaron chose to walk away from the half-lifeless man as he returned home and confessed all about his crimes to boyfriend, John Sugden.

Sticking by him, John told Aaron they should return to the depot and assess the situation and “not leave him to die”.

As the couple arrived, it was confirmed instantly that Anthony was in fact dead and that Aaron had killed him.

Not being able to risk going to prison for the murder, John opted to help Aaron as he confirmed he would take care of disposing of the body.

Admitting he had to do similar in the army, he soon cleaned up the entire floor before putting Anthony inside a bag to conceal his body.

John then dragged him out and later told Aaron he had disposed of the body “where no one would find it” but declined to tell him where.

Before telling Aaron he had sorted it, John had a run-in with Ross and Steph where Ross rooted around in the back of his van.

John appeared visibly on-edge with his van likely having been used to move, or house, Anthony’s body.

Fans will remember seeing a body dumped in a river during the show’s New Year flashforwards but viewers will have to stay tuned to see if this was the fate of Anthony.