Emmerdale airs Moira Dingle arrest as planted Celia Daniels evidence is found at her farm in ITVX release
Warning: Contains spoilers for Wednesday's episode of Emmerdale, which airs at 8pm on ITV1 or can be streamed now on ITVX.
Moira Dingle (Natalie J Robb) has been arrested for a crime she didn't even commit in Emmerdale – with thanks to Robert Sugden (Ryan Hawley) planting passports of enslaved workers in her living room.
As viewers saw, vile Celia Daniels (Jaye Griffiths) was keeping a number vulnerable people captive in the attic space of her farmhouse, which neighboured with Moira's homestead Butler's Farm.
The workers – including Paddy Dingle's (Dominic Brunt) dad Bear Wolf (Joshua Richards) – were forced to live in squalor while working long hours, and were often on the receiving end of Celia's son Ray Walters's (Joe Absolom) abuse.
Meanwhile, an oblivious Moira struck up a venture with Celia, which quickly turned sour. She realised that her business partner had forged her signature on several documents to buy an influx of turkeys, something which has now come back to haunt her.
As well as the contracts between the women, police have now also found the identification documents that Robert stashed on her bookshelf. He'd been forced to commit the act by Joe Tate (Ned Porteous), who is blackmailing Robert's sister Vic (Isabel Hodgins) into handing over her share of Butler's.
If the siblings didn't comply, he would expose the footage of her killing their brother John (Oliver Farnworth) in some woodland.
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Moira was gobsmacked to be taken away by the police, and in the interview room she denied all involvement in Celia and Ray's disgusting operation. Shockingly, the officer didn't seem to believe a word that came out of her mouth.
She thought that Moira had benefitted from the money Celia was bringing in, at a troubling time for the farming industry and following a slurry leak on her land.
Meanwhile, word of Moira's arrest reached Home Farm. Robert told Joe that he would "blow [Joe's] world apart' if she was sent down, and he seemed to take enjoyment out of the threat.
Will Moira ever be able to prove her innocence?
Read more:
- Emmerdale flashback week spoilers: Day by day guide as Ray Walters's killer is finally exposed
- Emmerdale boss teases killer cover-up story for Robert and Victoria Sugden after John's brutal death
- Emmerdale reveals John Sugden murder twist as major character witnesses death in ITVX release
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Michael Adams is the Soaps Editor at Radio Times, covering all of the hot gossip and spoilers from Weatherfield to Walford, Emmerdale to Hollyoaks and everywhere in-between. He joined the team from Metro, where he spent two years as a Soaps Reporter and previously worked on the sets of both Coronation Street and Emmerdale.
