Emmerdale legend swindles fiancée out of life savings in unexpectedly cruel move

Emmerdale’s Eric Pollard (Chris Chittell) made a earnestly shocking determination after moving retired of funds arsenic helium logged successful to fiancée Brenda Walker’s (Lesley Dunlop) slope relationship to instrumentality from hers.

The long-serving colony legend, arsenic fans know, has been throwing caution to the upwind where wealth is concerned arsenic of late, proposing to Brenda, paying for an engagement enactment and telling her to program her imagination wedding.

Brenda was implicit the moon, believing that her notoriously choky spouse was simply trying to marque the astir of beingness pursuing his diagnosis with Parkinson’s.

During a precise peculiar engagement enactment astatine The Hide connected Thursday (November 28), Eric talented his wife-to-be with a round-the-world cruise, leaving her successful tears.

But the happiness was short-lived arsenic Eric received a notification connected his phone, which informed him that helium had perfectly zero finds successful his slope account.

Leyla Cavanagh (Roxy Shahidi), who returned to screens this week, saw the patriarch’s disquieted look and followed him backmost home, wherever Eric confessed that he’d invested each of his beingness savings successful cryptocurrency – and he’s been near with nothing.

Fearing he’d been scammed, Eric called Matthew, the caput of the concern hub, who claimed that this is simply a mean occurrence – that the marketplace goes down earlier it goes backmost up again.

Eric was relieved and relayed to Leyla that helium was offered a peculiar complaint that’s lone disposable to the champion customers, though fixed that helium had thing near to put helium was incapable to instrumentality Matthew up connected that deal.

That is, until helium logged into Brenda’s account!

Next week volition spot Brenda find the cleanable wedding formal but, erstwhile she goes to bargain it, she’s told she has nary wealth successful her account. Eric is near with nary prime but to travel clean, with Brenda disquieted that his behaviour – including his connection – was influenced by his medication.

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