Slave Bear Wolf (Joshua Richards) discovers Celia Daniels (Jaye Griffiths) and Ray Walters’ (Joe Absolom) plan to leave the Emmerdale village in upcoming episodes, leaving him to wonder what is going to happen to him.

There was a hugely poignant moment in a recent instalment where little Eve Dingle (Bella James) was playing in a field at Butlers and spotted her granddad Bear in a neighbouring field.

Bear has been missing from home for months now, with his family totally unaware that he’s been ensnared by Ray and Celia and is working on Celia’s farm along with other people in conditions of modern day slavery, being subjected to manipulation, violence and extreme hardship.

The fact that his beloved granddaughter saw him, but Paddy (Dominic Brunt), Mandy (Lisa Riley) and the rest of the family who are desperate for some news of him didn’t believe her, highlighted the huge tragedy that he’s literally surrounded by people who genuinely love him, but he’s completely cut off from them.