Emmerdale character proves key to saving evil Tom King – with a plan that could free him

After galore months of making Belle Dingle (Eden Taylor-Draper)’s beingness a misery successful Emmerdale, evil Tom King (James Chase) was finally charged with coercive and controlling behaviour and assault. 

For Belle it was a monolithic alleviation to cognize that her abuser was successful custody and she was safe. More importantly, aft truthful galore radical had bought Tom’s lies and believed she wasn’t telling the truth, yet having impervious that she’d been telling the information each along was massive. 

It seemed similar the extremity of a horrible section for Belle, but arsenic this communicative nears its extremity determination are inactive immoderate twists and turns to come. Even from down bars, Tom inactive finds ways to manipulate events backmost successful the village. 

‘Tom is bully astatine manipulation. He’s bully astatine turning radical connected each different for his ain benefit,’ James Chase told us. 

‘He enjoys playing radical and playing scenarios. Tom is superb astatine it. If helium was calved successful medieval times helium would astir apt beryllium a king! Pardon the pun with his name. He thinks helium tin get distant with it arsenic helium has a benignant of God complex. He thinks he’s incredibly intelligent.

‘He is intelligent.  Tom is cunning, conniving and clever – and I would benignant of comparison him to Littlefinger from Game of Thrones.’ 

We’ve seen the mode that Tom targets and past controls people, specifically young women who whitethorn person a vulnerability to them similar Belle and Amelia (Daisy Campbell).

But with Amelia having yet saw done his lies, helium sets his sights connected his relative Angelica King (Rebecca Bakes). 

Angel has precocious travel location from a young offenders’ instauration after sidesplitting Heath Hope (Sebastian Dowling) owed to reckless driving. Her homecoming has been hard arsenic she struggled to acceptable backmost into household life.

Tom takes vantage of this erstwhile Angelica contacts him successful prison. He twists her astir his small digit with flattery and lies until he’s won her circular to reasoning that it’s Belle who’s the villain and Tom the victim. 

Then helium asks her to effort to triumph her dad, Jimmy (Nick Miles), backmost circular to his side. Jimmy was antecedently 1 of Tom’s precise fewer supporters but changed his stance erstwhile helium saw the mode Tom behaved towards Amelia. Tom evidently realises that Jimmy is his champion accidental of gaining an state successful the colony again. 

‘He ever has a plan,’ James Chase warned. ‘Tom ever has got a program and he’s got thing up his sleeve, due to the fact that helium has to if helium wants to get retired of this concern connected top.’  

Angel encourages her dada to work a missive from Tom, but Jimmy isn’t convinced by what Tom has to say. Undeterred, Angel piles connected the affectional blackmail until Jimmy agrees to sojourn his nephew successful prison.

Tom is pleased to person the accidental to enactment his manipulative ways successful person, but this clip Jimmy is acold little gullible than helium has been antecedently wherever Tom is concerned. 

When Tom resorts to his accustomed attack of blaming Belle for everything that happened, Jimmy realises that Tom is ne'er going to alteration and helium leaves the prison. 

With Jimmy retired of the representation there’s inactive Angelica, and she takes it upon herself to effort to further Tom’s origin by posting a video online – a determination that could plaything events successful Tom’s favour… 

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