{"id":54674,"date":"2024-07-11T21:30:33","date_gmt":"2024-07-11T19:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=2069637"},"modified":"2024-07-12T08:23:52","modified_gmt":"2024-07-12T06:23:52","slug":"emmerdales-samson-dingle-double-crosses-moira-amid-shock-kidnap-arrest","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/emmerdales-samson-dingle-double-crosses-moira-amid-shock-kidnap-arrest\/","title":{"rendered":"Emmerdale\u2019s Samson Dingle double-crosses Moira amid shock kidnap arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"

She thought he had finally done the right thing. <\/p>

By Laura Denby\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Thursday, 11 July 2024 at 19:30 PM<\/p>

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Moira Dingle (Natalie J Robb) realised she had been double-crossed in tonight\u2019s Emmerdale<\/a> (11th July 2024), when she and her brother Mackenzie Boyd (Lawrence Robb) were arrested!<\/p>\n

The latest twist came after Moira\u2019s son Matty Barton (Ash Palmisciano) ended up in hospital, as his unjust imprisonment led to transphobic abuse behind bars.<\/p>\n

What she doesn\u2019t know is that Matty asked cellmate Les to beat him up so he could get some respite from the risk to his life.<\/p>\n

Viewers know that Samson Dingle (Sam Hall) was accidentally stabbed<\/a> when his friend Josh Cope (Osian Morgan) pushed him into a knife that Matty was holding, and Josh has threatened Samson into telling the police that Matty was to blame.<\/p>\n

Moira paid Matty another visit in hospital, and she remained worried sick as she urged him to ask for protection in jail. Matty insisted that he couldn\u2019t report his attack, secretly aware that he couldn\u2019t make accusations that weren\u2019t, as yet, true.<\/p>\n

Back in the village, Matty\u2019s wife Amy (Natalie Ann Jamieson) told Mack how stupid she felt for mistaking nasty Robbo for Les, and unwittingly outing Matty as transgender<\/a>, putting him in danger.<\/p>\n

The pair were disgusted when Samson casually sauntered by while on the phone to Josh, but they were interrupted by a call from Moira, who wept that she simply had to ensure Matty\u2019s freedom, and fast.<\/p>\n

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Samson, Lydia and Josh in Emmerdale.<\/span><\/figcaption> ITV<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n

Mack confronted Samson\u2019s defensive dad Sam (James Hooton), pointing out that Samson and Josh\u2019s imminent trip to Europe was convenient, as they were clearly fleeing from their misdeeds.<\/p>\n

When Amy went to see him, guilt-ridden Matty confessed that he had orchestrated his own attack out of fear of staying in Robbo\u2019s orbit. Amy was stunned, but devastated at just how desperate her husband had become.<\/p>

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Meanwhile, Moira and Mack forcibly removed Samson from his home and took him to Butler\u2019s Farm, where they made him listen to the extent of Matty\u2019s ordeal.<\/p>\n

Samson repeated that this wasn\u2019t his problem, but as Moira reminded him that she had already lost one child, her daughter Holly Barton (Sophie Powles), and revealed how much danger Matty was in as a transgender inmate, it wasn\u2019t long before Samson\u2019s guilt was written all over his face.<\/p>\n

At the Woolpack, Chas Dingle (Lucy Pargeter) alerted Sam and Lydia (Karen Blick) to the fact that Samson was missing from his shift.<\/p>\n

While they searched for him, Samson admitted to Moira that Josh had made him target Matty, and now wouldn\u2019t let him tell the truth.<\/p>\n

Mack urged Samson to lie that Josh had attacked Matty, and Samson eventually agreed, letting Moira drive him to the police station. He convinced her to leave him there, and Moira was optimistic that things were finally looking up.<\/p>\n

But back at Butler\u2019s, PC Mike Swirling (Andy Moore) arrived to arrest Moira and Mack for kidnap and false imprisonment, after Samson made a report on their behaviour. Will the truth come out, or are Matty\u2019s relatives set for prison sentences of their own?<\/p>\n

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