EMMERFAIL Emmerdale villain Tom King burned by vengeful villagers for Bonfire Night – and he makes a fatal mistake

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.

Tom King made a fatal mistake tonight as the Emmerdale villagers burned an effigy of him Credit: ITV

The abuser was horrified to see his likeness used as the guy for Bonfire Night Credit: ITV

Mandy was the first Dingle to humiliate Tom Credit: ITV

Tom decided wisely to flee as Aaron made it clear he wouldn’t back down Credit: ITV

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?”

He turned on Amelia, blaming her for everything – but everyone saw him Credit: ITV

He stormed off humiliated with the net closing in on him Credit: ITV

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.