Charity's Past Revealed

We meet the troubled blonde as a 14-year-old, and learn more about her ordeal at the hands of DI Bails…

Emmerdale’s outgoing series producer, Iain MacLeod, has mixed up the traditional format of soap many a time during his two years at the helm – with Robert Sugden’s Christmas ‘Groundhog Day’, life from ailing Ashley Thomas’ perspective and the flashback to Cain Dingle’s childhood just some of the special episodes to have hit our screens.

This week, Charity Dingle gets the MacLeod treatment, with Tuesday’s episode taking us back in time to when the landlady was a 14-year-old girl, sexually abused by copper Mark Bails.