Who is Thomas ‘Tom’ King in Emmerdale and what did he do to Belle?

Who was Tom King? (Picture: ITV)

The word ‘monster’ is chucked around a lot in soap, but Emmerdale’s Tom King (James Chase) certainly fits the bill.

While the King family were known to have a deep pool of darkness bubbling under their pristine, well-to-do surface, no other member of the family ever reached the sheer heights of evil that Tom did.

His campaign of terror against wife Belle Dingle (Eden Taylor-Draper) was vicious, vile and utterly unrel...