It’s an emotional week for the King family in Emmerdale soon, as Angelica King (Rebecca Bakes) discovers how long she will spend in a children’s home following Heath Hope’s (Sebastian Dowling) death.
Heath died at the start of the year following a car crash. In the aftermath, we learnt that Angelica was behind the wheel, meaning she caused a death by dangerous driving.
Despite their best efforts to try and find a loophole, Nicola (Nicola Wheeler) and Jimmy (Nick Miles) are now facing the prospect of saying a temporary goodbye to Angelica, who has to face the consequences for her actions.
Coming up, Jimmy struggles to lift his spirits as he contemplates Angel’s near-certain departure.
After Angel says goodbye to her siblings, she’s touched when Bob (Tony Audenshaw) manages to offer her a word of consolation.
Angel, Nicola and Jimmy then arrive at the hearing. As the meeting gets underway, the trio are devastated when the judge sentences Angelica to eight months in a secure children’s home.
Back at home, Bob is emotional as he starts to read his letter from Angel.
As Angelica is separated from her family, Jimmy and Nicola have no choice but to return to the village.
That evening, Nicola tries to hold herself together when Angel calls in a state of distress, but she quickly realises there’s nothing she can do to help her daughter.
Searching for a distration, Nicola heads to the B&B and apologises to Bob.
There, a moment of thawing occurs between the pair. Nicola and Bob have both lost a child in this ordeal and eventually, as they connect, they start to support each other in their shared grief.
