Emmerdale spoilers: 'I killed Joe!' Cain Dingle confesses to Debbie Dingle

Cain tells Debbie the truth

Just after reporting her runaway fiance Joe as a missing person to the police, Debbie is shocked when her dad Cain reveals his "killer" secret...

Double-bill. Debbie Dingle still doesn’t know what really happened to her “runaway” fiance Joe Tate on the day of the couple’s doomed wedding last year, and that her dad Cain was involved in Joe's mystery vanishing act!

When Debbie is asked to identify a dead body she fears it could be Joe. When Cain sees the turmoil his daughter is in, the weight of his guilty secret proves too much and he drops the shock bombshell - he accidentally killed Joe, when the businessman fell and hit his head during a fight outside Home Farm…

Will Debbie ever be able to forgive Cain for what he has done?

Meanwhile, David Metcalfe remains pleased his girlfriend Maya Stepney has offered to give his teenage stepson Jacob Gallagher some private tuition. But the village shopkeeper is unaware the twisted teacher has anything but studying in mind and has begun a secret affair with the lovestruck schoolboy…

Having fallen under Maya’s spell after their secret kisses at Christmas, Jacob starts sending his teacher some shirtless selfies, increasing the risk their forbidden affair could soon be exposed...

Chas Dingle tells Charity to show her feelings

Chas has some advice for Charity. (Picture: ITV)

Elsewhere, in the aftermath of village vet Vanessa Woodfield's shock stabbing outside The Woolpack, Chas Dingle urges family relative Charity Dingle to show girlfriend Vanessa just how she really feels. What will Charity do?

Emmerdale continues weeknights at 7:00pm on ITV

Simon Timblick
Writer

Simon has long been a fan of soap operas, and especially loves OVER-THE-TOP plots involving evil twins, hair-pulling catfights and natural disasters.

Anyone remember the Sunset Beach earthquake/tidal wave?

Or when Krystle Carrington got locked in the attic and replaced by look-a-like Rita in Dynasty?!


Simon has written for a variety of TV and childrens’ magazines/websites including Inside Soap, Nickelodeon, What’s On TV, Radio Times, Metro, Girl Talk, Disney Girl, Toxic! and Digital Spy.

He has reported LIVE from the red carpet at The British Soap Awards interviewing glammed-up stars from soapland, and hosted a Facebook LIVE session for Metro with Home and Away legend Ray Meagher (Alf "Stone the flamin' crows!" Stewart) to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Aussie soap.


Simon is also co-author of The Treasures Of Coronation Street (Carlton Books)


And the writer and director of (very!) low budget fright flick, Midsummer Night's EVIL and the sequel webisodes series, The Hatchet Woods HORROR.