EMMERDALE has kick started the New Year with two horrifying murders in today’s episode.

The soap has said goodbye to two characters in two chilling scenes that will rock the village to its core when the news is revealed.

A woman with dark skin and hair speaking to a light-skinned man with a beard and mustache, who is crying.Celia Daniels savagely mocked her adopted son Ray in today’s New Year’s Day episode of EmmerdaleCredit: ITV A woman with wide eyes and an open mouth, appearing distressed, embraces a man whose back is to the camera.And she finally went too far and he took his own brutal revengeCredit: ITV A man standing over a person lying on the floor in a room.He stabbed her and left her to die on the filthy farmhouse floorCredit: ITV

In the episode as she demanded and instead let her go.

“This is Laurel, that dull dried up girlfriend of yours,” she thundered.

“She doesn’t love you. How could anyone love you?”

She decided to hit him where it hurt and reminded him of his teenage mother dumping him and his grandfather having to hand him over to Celia.

“You can say what you want but Bear is not going to die,” Ray insisted, pushing aside his emotions.

Then Celia revealed the horrifying trust – when Ray was meant to be killing April – she had already killed Bear.

She told him: “No, you’re right, Bear is not going to die because he is already dead.

“I know you’d like me to tell you it was painless but it wasn’t. It was slow. I watched him gasping for breath as he begged me to help him. You see, at least one of us still has the stomach for this game.”

Ray was overcome with emotion and began crying as Celia continued to mock and threaten him.

But later Ray was pushed too far – and he was the one to finally deal with Celia for good.

He spent the day stewing in fury at what she’d said and done and so when Celia came to apologise, to manipulate him, it wasn’t enough.

“There’s a way through this, we just need to remember we’re on the same side,” she said.

“I still see that sensitive little boy when he felt that the whole sky was going to cave in on top of him, I would throw my arms around him and make it go away. Come here stupid?”

Joshua Richards as Bear Wolf in "Emmerdale," with blood on his hands and sweater.Bear Wolf has been revealed to have been murdered by Celia after being enslavedCredit: ITV

Pulling him in for a hug, twisted Celia told him: “I am the only one who will ever love you.”

But after he stabbed her, Celia told him: “I’m proud of you.”

She then slumped to the floor dead as Ray realised that he would never know what happened to Bear’s body.