EMMERDALE fans think Lydia Hart’s baby was a result of her being raped by Frank Tate.
Frank left the soap in 1997, and Friday’s episode ended with Lydia handing herself into the police station and revealing she’s Jenny Finn.
And fans have devised a twisted theory about how she found herself being pregnant.
One person wrote on Twitter: “So now the rumours are Frank Tate is the baby daddy! Did he rape Lydia when she was a kid??”
Another viewer said: “This has the late Frank Tate all over it – I’ll just leave my #Emmerdale fan theory, here (please read the poster)…”
Lydia entered the station and told the officer behind the desk: “I’m the woman you’re looking for. The baby you found, it’s mine, I’m Jenny Finn.”
Another commented: “Lydia Hart/Jenny Finn literally buried her tragic past at the school grounds… And Frank Tate was the ‘baby daddy’.”
Thursday saw the police confirming that the bones belonged to a baby and that the mother was a 16-year-old girl named Jenny Finn and, by the end of the episode, the soap also revealed that ‘Jenny’ is actually a young Lydia confirming viewers’ theories that Lydia is the villager at the centre of the mystery.
Her big secret was rumbled at the end of the show’s double bill as Sam Dingle broke the news about the bones belonging to a baby and Lydia could be seen looking distressed.
The scene then cut to the police station, where they’d managed to find a photo of their top suspect, Jenny Finn.
The detective said: “Jennifer Finn, went missing from Hotten Grange Children’s Home November 1990.
“From what forensics have said about how long this kid’s been in the ground, she’s our most likely candidate for the mother.
“Have it copied for tomorrow’s press conference. Let’s see if we can’t track this woman down, see why she’s done a runner.”
Fans were beside themselves with this news.
One tweeted: “OMG…… Lydia!!!? #Emmerdale”
This one said: “OMG so Lydia’s really Jenny Finn? Why the name change though? #Emmerdale”
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Another said: “Ohhh it’s lovely Lydia @karenblick Ah I hope the Dingles don’t turn on her #Emmerdale”
This one was shocked: “The amount of times the police have been to the Dingles though… Can they not suss that it’s Lydia?! #Emmerdale”
While this on tweeted: “Either Lydia has a twin or that baby really was hers & she’s Jenny #Emmerdale”
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