EMMERDALE fanswere left in tears tonight after Robert and Aaron fled the village to avoid murder charges after rapist Lee died.
The couple – who are played by actors Ryan Hawley and Danny Miller in the ITV soap – were forced to leave the village so Robert wouldn’t be arrested and charged with murder when Lee died in hospital.
Victoria was left devastated at losing another family member after breaking the news about Lee’s death but her mentions of her other brother and husband going on the run have fans convinced Robert will die.
The chef had just began texting her new hospital worker flirtation when she was almost knocked down by Lee on a hospital bed being rushed into surgery.
She was horrified as she saw him again and there was more horror to come.
Listening in to Lee’s mum talking to the doctor, Victoria overheard that her rapist had died.
The doctor said: “I’m afraid Lee has suffered a very traumatic bleed on the brain.
“Despite our best efforts to save him I’m afraid your son died before we could get him to surgery.”
Realising what this meant for her brother, who had already plead guilty for the assault on Lee, Victoria went to Robert to warn him.
“It’s Lee, he died Robert,” she said.
“I saw him at the hospital, he was having a fit and I heard one of the doctors talking about a bleed on his brain.”
Robert realised this meant he would be charged with murder.
He said: “It wasn’t self-defence, he didn’t touch me. He pushed me too far and I snapped.”
As Victoria and Robert panicked, Liv hatched a plan and told him he needed to go on the run with Aaron.
Even Victoria pointing out that both her other brother Andy and husband Adam were currently separately wandering the world also on the run, both of the couple decided to leave.
They said goodbye to Victoria, Liv and baby See before making a run for it with a quick goodbye to Chas and Paddy.
Fans were left in bits at the emotional scenes tonight.
One wrote: “Tonight’s ep broke me just shows that #Robron are true soulmates and Aaron is going to be broken when Robert goes not looking forward to next week’s scenes#Emmerdale”
A second said: “Crying at Aaron saying goodbye like it’s a member of my family, absolutely heartbroken #Emmerdale”
Another added: “Aww Aaron and Robert are leaving #emmerdale”
