Just when viewers thought Ray Daniels had stopped, he unleashed another vicious attack.

In the new episodes, Ray is described as Emmerdale’s “headless snake” – someone who uses others to expand his power and manipulate everything.

After Anya is seriously injured, Ray begins to turn his attention to new targets: April Windsor and Bear Wolf himself.

He secretly collects false evidence, staging videos to make Bear look like the perpetrator of Anya’s abuse.

Meanwhile, Ray contacts Celia to continue running the illegal labor ring, forcing the surviving victims to serve him. “If Bear loses all credibility, we’re safe,” Ray says coldly in a leaked segment.

The climax comes when he walks into the hospital, looks at the comatose Anya and whispers: “Unfortunately, you’re too weak to interest me.” The line has outraged the fan community, who have collectively called Ray “the sickest villain of the decade”.

It is predicted that Ray will shock the audience even more when he launches a plan to kidnap April to force Bear to stay silent. Emmerdale is turning Ray into the “villain without a reason” model – someone who lives only to prove his power, and whoever gets involved with him cannot escape.