Belle Dingle (Eden Taylor-Draper) has slowly become

aware of Tom King’s (James Chase) true colours, but

now she doesn’t know how to escape him in Emmerdale.

Tom’s latest abhorrent behaviour has seen him smash

Vinny over the head with a paperweight, belittle him over his sexual status, and force himself on Belle. Terrified of getting pregnant by her menacing husband, Belle has been secretly taking the pill, something that would no doubt send him into melt down if he ever found out.

She organises a clandestine trip to the GP to organise with Manpreet that her medication is not sent to her home address to avoid detection.

Will Manpreet recognise the signs of domestic abuse and raise the alarm bell?

Explaining these upcoming scenes, Eden Taylor-Draper said: ‘So from the minute they got married, Tom was very quick to bring up having a baby. Belle quite clearly said, let’s slow down. I think Tom put the pressure on by saying, well, I don’t have a family, you are my family and I want a family. This is my dream. Belle, after quite a few episodes of him pushing for it, says, okay, yeah, we can have a baby. And straight after that it’s like, what am I doing? I don’t want to have a baby right now.

‘I don’t think Belle quite realises herself that she knows she doesn’t want to have a baby with him. I think she just thinks I’m too young and I’ve got too much going on. She goes to see Manpreet to organise collecting her pill so Tom doesn’t find out, which is huge for her. I think that’s the first time she’s done something that she thinks if he finds out, this would be terrible.’