Joe’s horrific act over dead Holly in Emmerdale will leave you utterly disgusted

Joe Tate’s (Ned Porteous) done some lower than low things in his time in Emmerdale, but targeting a dead girl? Jeeesh.

What an utter disappointment this man has become. Really starting to judge his fiancé Dawn Taylor (Olivia Bromley) at this point for not waking up and smelling the stench of vindictive bully.

Even Graham Foster (Andrew Scarborough) can’t believe quite how sadistic Joe is turning. Graham reacted with horror when he learned Joe had set up a bank account in Lydia Dingle’s (Karen Blick) name to falsely frame her for stealing from Kim Tate (Claire King).

It was all in revenge for the fact that Joe had learned of Kim’s plan to leave Home Farm to Lydia in her will. Not Lydia’s fault, yet he cruelly planned for her to become collateral damage.

Joe is a sore loser, that’s for sure.

But his latest stunt has nothing to do with Kim, for once. Interestingly, he is simultaneously accused of trying to murder her with mushrooms, but that’s another story.

In this case, Joe is forging forward with his takeover of Butlers Farm. He has no regard for this once being a Dingle family home, or the site of Moira Dingle’s (Natalie J Robb) beloved farming business. Joe wants to erase all evidence they were once there and continue his path to world domination.

As work begins on the land, Joe orders the workmen to demolish everything in one of the farm’s old fields – and this includes Holly’s memorial.

Holly is Moira’s daughter, who was killed by an overdose.

While that alone is abhorrent behaviour, it is made even worse by the fact that Kim personally visited Moira in prison and assured her that in the sale of Butlers, Holly’s field and final resting place would remain protected and untouched.

But Kim hadn’t banked on evil little Joe being evil little Joe.