EMMERDALE is set to get even more complicated as one villager comes forward to the police to confess to a crime – but they’re not the real guilty party.
Viewers of tonight’s episode (Thursday 30 January) of Emmerdale will watch as a disturbed Laurel Thomas (Charlotte Bellamy) struggles with the enormity of what she’s done.
She appears to have gone AWOL as she beats herself up over Anthony Fox’s (Nicholas Day) disappearance, and she’s convinced she’s to blame.
A few days before ITV viewers watched as Laurel attacked sex abuser Anthony after finding him violently confronting friend Nicola King (Nicola Wheeler).
Attacking him with a candlestick, Laurel is left convinced that the violent outburst killed him as he appeared to stumble away bleeding and hurt.
Whilst Nicola has tried to reassure Laurel, she’s remained worried ever since and in the latest episode she decided the guilt is too much.
As a recovering alcoholic, the worry and guilt has already seen Laurel reaching for the drink as in one weak moment she opened a bottle of vodka.
However she then poured it down the sink, avoiding taking a sip but clearly getting close to breaking down.
In the final moments of this episode, a frantic Laurel can be seen waiting at the desk of the local police station.
When approached by an officer she tells him she’s committed a murder, with the episode ending on Laurel’s worried face in the station.
Yet Laurel isn’t to blame for Anthony’s murder, instead it was Aaron Dingle (Danny Miller) who killed him in a fit of rage after discovering he sexually abused his daughter, Ruby (Beth Cordingly).
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In the previous episode, viewers watched as Aaron and boyfriend John Sugden (Oliver Farnworth) worked out the details of how to move forward after Anthony’s death including how to hide the evidence and invent a story about why he’d mysteriously left.
The pair appeared to have worked out a plan, but Aaron was consumed by the guilt and felt the need to confide to Ruby what he’d done.
With Ruby and husband Caleb Milligan also in the know, the circle of those who know the truth continues to expand with Aaron then later telling his mum Chas (Lucy Pargeter).
