EMMERDALE has revealed its new villain – and she’s more dangerous than any the show has seen before.

The ITV soap has aired an explosive twist in its streaming episode today as April Windsor’s drug dealing hell took a deadly turn.

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Viewers know April has been groomed into becoming a drug dealer by fearsome gangster Ray Walters – but up until now it was assumed he was at the top of the tree.

However that has now been proven not to be the case.

In today’s episode April ended up accidentally leaving a bag of pills at home with her brother Leo accidentally taking one.

He was rushed to hospital and ultimately saved but the guilt was destroying April.

Determined to confess, April was planning to reveal all about everything that had happened – from Dylan’s addiction to Ray manipulating her into dealing.

With no way of getting to her in time, Ray called his boss and she headed off to the hospital.

Finding April, she pretended to be a friend and took April to get a hot chocolate and offered her a shoulder to cry on.

But outside, Celia began to try to manipulate April into keeping quiet.

And when that didn’t happen she decided to show her true colours.

Slapping April and then grabbing her so she couldn’t escape, she snarled: “You listen to me you ungrateful little wretch.

“You lost Ray thousands of pounds and this is how you repay him?

“Maybe he hasn’t fully explained to you exactly what you’ve got yourself caught up in? I’m his boss.”

She added: “You just told a complete stranger absolutely everything, do you have any idea how dangerous that is?

“There are consequences to crossing us because it’s not just you you’ll be betraying, it’s all of us.

“Let me make myself very clear. If you say one word about where you got those drugs from, we would have to retaliate..

“Now you think little Leo’s in trouble now? It is nothing compared to what happens next.

“Maybe one day you’ll go missing again only this time they won’t find you… Not all of you anyway. Is that what you want?”

Later Celia sat down with Ray and put him in his place, warning him that he was being too soft on the kids under their control.

And when he called her mum – there was a glimpse into their relationship with Celia confirming she had found him on the streets and raised him as her own.

But how far will they go and how much danger is April in?