A distraught Amy Barton (Natalie Ann Jamieson) visits the hospital bedside of her husband Matty (Ash Palmisciano) in a new Emmerdale spoiler clip. Amy is full of guilt about being the cause of Matty being beaten up in prison – but he’s about to make an admission that will shock her.
Matty is wrongfully in prison after Samson Dingle (Sam Hall) told the police that Matty stabbed him in an unprovoked attack. Viewers know that the ‘stabbing’ was an accident and was caused by Samson’s horrible friend Josh (Osian Morgan) pushing him at Matty, who was holding a kitchen knife.
As soon as Matty was sent to prison, after breaking bail by trying to convince Samson to tell the truth, he was terrified for his safety. As a trans man, Matty knew that he would be vulnerable and could be the target of hatred and violence.
His fears were slightly alleviated when he discovered that his cell-mate Les (Stacey J. Gough) was a good man who could be trusted with Matty’s secret, and he told Amy when she visited that Les had his back.
Unfortunately for Amy, when another prisoner approached her she thought it was Les and during the short conversation mentioned Matty being trans. It was only when Matty was severely beaten up that she realised what had happened – she’d actually been talking to Robbo (John O’Neill), ‘The prison’s biggest transphobe,’ according to Matty.
In this clip Amy is mortified that she was the cause of Matty’s injuries and she’s full of regrets that she was so careless about talking about Matty’s private information. ‘I’ll never forgive myself,’ she tells him.
Matty is upset by her words, because he knows that his beating wasn’t her fault at all. In fact it wasn’t even Robbo who attacked him – it was his friend Les.
Matty got Les to beat him up so he would be taken to the hospital and would be safely away from the other prisoners now that Les was being released and would no longer be around to defend him.
As Matty struggles to find the words to tell his wife what really happened, how will she react when he tells her that his injuries – a fractured eye socket and broken ribs – weren’t her fault at all but were inflicted by Les in a moment of sheer desperation by Matty?
