“Emmerdale Shocks Fans with Stunning Twist as Beloved Character Returns from the Dead”

Put an end to the Ofcom grievances! In tonight’s episode of Emmerdale, a startling turn of events is revealed: Piper the dog is alive and was not killed by Tom King (James Chase).

As the evil Tom uses his wife Belle (Eden Taylor-Draper) as a pawn in his abuse and manipulation, poor Piper has had a horrible few months in the town.

After he poisoned the dog earlier this year, 850 viewers of the soap opera wrote to the broadcaster, and this week he went even farther when he killed her.

When Belle refused to accept his gift, a vintage Mini Cooper which he had rigged with a GPS tracker, he drove off in a huff and noticed Piper on the road outside of Holdgate Farm.

With nothing to lose, he accelerated towards her, and later carried her lifeless body into the vets.

Following the canine’s death, Tom decided he would swoop in and comfort Belle over the incident, but she soon had a moment of clarity – he was the one who’d killed Piper. 

It’s no surprise that more complaints then flooded in, as viewers of the ITV soap watched Belle bury her remains in a basket on some farmland near Wishing Well Cottage.

In tonight’s episode, she began researching how to access domestic violence records through Clare’s Law, in an effort to determine if her husband has a history.

After spotting her quickly closing her laptop in the cafe, he later let himself into Dale Head using the key he stole, and began trying to guess her password.

Several attempts later, he found that she had wiped her search history and began to upload malware onto the device so he could watch what she was searching remotely.

Back at Victoria Cottage, he saw that she had made a request to view any records, and had also looked up ways to tell her family she was a victim. When his friend Ollie arrived, he asked him for advice on the ‘lies’ that she was spreading about him.

As the episode came to a close, Belle sat beside Piper’s grave sobbing, whilst Tom drove to a cottage.

Climbing out of the car, a couple approached him… and he handed over a very much alive Piper, telling them that the ‘awful woman’ who owned her had tied her up 24 hours a day, and ‘won’t even realise she’s gone.’

Can Belle be reunited with her dog?