Sick Tom King targets a child as he unleashes hammer attack in Emmerdale
After Belle Dingle’s (Eden Taylor-Draper) axe attack on Tom King (James Chase) which he miraculously survived in Emmerdale, one would think that maybe he would finally back off. Not so, he’s only getting worse.
When Amelia (Daisy Campbell) blabbed to Tom that Belle planned to go to the police, she set off a terrible chain reaction. Tom snuck into the Dingle Homestead, held Belle hostage and attacked her, leaving her bloodied and crying for help. She grabbed a gun, but unable to pull the trigger, she made a run for it into an outbuilding.
Evil Tom tracked her down and broken in with an axe, where he took the gun off her, removed the safety, and taunted her with it. But he made the mistake of turning his back. As he regaled her with his smug victory, she swung the axe right into him.
It looked like he was a gonner and the Dingles were going to have to feed him to the pigs, but he wasn’t dead and did eventually come around. This is where he got even more depraved.
He began blackmailing Belle – if she drops the domestic abuse accusations, he’ll keep it to himself that she tried to murder him, and he forces her to kiss him on the cheek to seal the deal.
But brave Belle is having none of it and now the pair are due to face off in court.
And now Tom is desperate, because he knows that there is plenty of evidence against him. He’s unhinged and he is desperate, two very dangerous things.