Emmerdale villain Tom King burned by vengeful villagers for Bonfire Night – and he makes a fatal mistake
Evil Tom's plots to gain sympathy failed and he ended up exposing himself as an abuser
EMMERDALE villain Tom King exposed himself today as an abuser after the villagers burned an effigy of him over all he’d done.
The vet – who is played by actor James Chase in the ITV soap – is slowly being unmasked as an abuser who controlled, beat and terrorised wife Belle Dingle during their short marriage.
In today’s episode Tom discovered that his plot to gain sympathy by staging attacks on himself had failed.
Instead the village came together to burn an effigy of him for Bonfire Night – and he was horrified and then made a fatal mistake.
Amelia begged him: “Don’t rise to them Tom, because that’s exactly what they want.”
But he wanted to make a show of it and raged: “Is it not enough that I got a brick through my window, attacked and now this?
“Can you believe the absolute gall of that bunch of inbreds? I can’t believe they would pull a sick stunt like this.”
Jimmy told him to calm down and Amelia tried to get him to go home but Tom thundered over to the Dingles and demanded to know who did it.
Mandy strolled up first and told him: “I did it, what are you going to do about it?”
Paddy then joined her, adding: “No, no. I think you’ll find it was me.”
The pair were quickly joined by Chas who told Tom: “Sorry, well not so sorry.”
“Busted!” then said Sam as Aaron pushed through them to confront Tom head on.
“Why don’t you have a pop at me because it was me that did it?” he said as John backed him up offering to hold Tom’s coat.
Aaron added: “Oh yeah, I forgot, you only attack women, don’t you?”
Paddy stepped in and told Aaron: “Leave it, battering him isn’t going to help Belle is it?”
And then Amelia decided to shout from the sidelines: “The poor girl’s sick, can’t you see that?”
She went after Tom as he fled the confrontation and he turned on her in front of everyone.
“I didn’t even want to come here, it was your idea,” he raged.
“This was you, meddling, making things worse and look at you – chasing after me like some stray dog. Do you see how pathetic you look?”
She fled in tears as the villagers watched her humiliation and Jimmy and Nicola looked concerned.