Emmerdale spoiler: Emma Barton’s killer secret EXPOSED by a very unlikely source
KILLER Emma Barton looks like she’s about to be rumbled by a very unlikely source during next week’s Emmerdale.
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The murderous mother-of-four flung her husband James Barton (played by Bill Ward) off a bridge and onto an onslaught of speeding cars last year, landing on the roof of Ashley Thomas’ vehicle which sparked a treacherous pile-up on the Yorkshire highway.
Dressed in her blood-soaked wedding dress, Emma (Gillian Kearney) made a quick dash and seemingly got away with her secret kept well under wraps - until Ashley (John Middleton) clung onto a vague memory of a mystery figure peering over from above.
Trying to cover her tracks, Emma paid Ashley a visit just to make sure any slither of a memory would be scrapped once and for all.
And with the long-suffering vicar’s dementia spiralling out of control before he tragically died last month, it seemed like Emma was well in the clear. However, she was sorely mistaken as Ashley recorded the whole conversation as a means to keep his memories alive.
Emma Barton killer secret exposed on Emmerdale
we very deliberately put that in there
In next week’s string of episodes, the footage resurfaces when Ashley’s wife Laurel Potts (Charlotte Bellamy) watches the clip to console her son Arthur who’s lost his hamster Rattle.
As Rattle continues to speed around the house AWOL, Laurel plays the tape to calm Arthur down; until the rodent pops up and harmony is resumed.
Producer Iain McLeod recently told press including Express.co.uk that the footage would come back to haunt Emma over the coming weeks.
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Laurel Potts plays Ashley's video to console her son Arthur in Emmerdale
"We were thrilled with ourselves that we had come up with that device at the time, because normally in soap you get a year into a murder mystery,” he beamed. “You have to go, ‘Ergh, we need to invent some evidence now and sort of bring its existence back into the show’.
"But we very deliberately put that in there. Obviously as a kind of unexploded bomb – it will prove to be significant!"