Emmerdale airs heartbreaking Moira Dingle scenes as she makes sad discovery following prison release in early ITVX release

Moira Dingle (Natalie J. Robb) has had a less than enjoyable return to Emmerdale village after finally walking free from prison.

Robert Sugden (Ryan Hawley) planted passports of enslaved workers in her living room, leading to months behind bars on a double murder and human trafficking charge. He’d been forced to commit the act by Joe Tate (Ned Porteous), who was blackmailing his sister Vic (Isabel Hodgins) into handing over her share of Moira’s homestead Butler’s Farm.

As viewers saw, vile Celia Daniels (Jaye Griffiths) was keeping a number of vulnerable people captive in the attic space of her farmhouse.

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.

Moira was prepared to plead guilty to lessen her sentence, something which left Robert guilt-ridden and desperate to find evidence that could help show that she was innocent. During a chat with Bear, he discovered that there were some car registration plates that had seemingly vanished into thin air and could prove crucial in his plight.

 

With some intel from Kammy Hadiq (Shebz Miah), he tracked down the plates to a storage unit in Hotten and passed them onto the police. However, DS Walsh (Amanda Ryan) warned that the new evidence could take some time to process, and advised contacting Moira’s solicitor.

In today’s episode, husband Cain (Jeff Hordley) received some welcome news. Moira was making her way home, with all of the charges being dropped.

The Dingles were overjoyed with the prospect of her returning to Wishing Well, but were well aware that a lot had changed during her absence. She’d sold Butler’s Farm amid Cain’s prostate cancer diagnosis, and he was now trying to establish a new agricultural venture.