Emmerdale has hinted there might still be more to come in the Tom King (James Chase) abuse storyline – despite the fact he is behind bars for his crimes.
Earlier this week, the evil character was sentenced to three years in jail for his abuse and coercive control of wife Belle Dingle (Eden Taylor-Draper) after a harrowing trial.
During Friday’s episode of the ITV soap, Belle was still processing the previous day’s events, while Tom’s sentence was the talk of the village.
Mandy Dingle (Lisa Riley) shared her fears with Kerry Wyatt (Laura Norton) that while the worst may be over, she believed there could be more to come.
‘I can’t shake this feeling like that there’s more to come,’ Mandy said.
‘I don’t know [how], but like he’s not done yet.’
Belle was also left wondering what else Tom could have done as she chatted with Mandy’s adopted son Vinny Dingle (Bradley Johnson).
As fans of the ITV soap will remember, Tom a.t.t.a.c.k.e.d Vinny at the scrapyard earlier this year, when he was supposed to be at a conference.
Unbeknown to Belle, Tom had been tracking her phone, and was led to the scrapyard after Vinny agreed to help Belle fix her phone.
Vinny and Belle have never known that Tom was behind the a.t.t.a.c.k, and they threw back to the incident during a conversation on Friday.
‘I just can’t stop wondering what else Tom might have done,’ Belle told Vinny. ‘We never found out who put you in hospital. And that attack was random, and it was right after we’d spent that day together.
‘Tom could have easily driven back [from the conference] and he knew I was with you,’ she said, as the truth began to dawn on the pair of them.
Is Belle set to make more shock discoveries about Tom’s actions? And could he wreak revenge from prison?
Emmerdale continues on Monday at 7.30pm on ITV1 or stream first from 7am on ITVX.
