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Gemma Jones

Emmerdale blunder spotted in Ben's murder investigation

Emmerdale fans slammed the ITV soap as they noticed blunders in Ben's murder investigation.

We recently saw HOP worker Ben battered to death with an oar by murderous Meena after she found out that he had seen CCTV footage of her trying to drown Victoria.

But, drunken Liv was one of the last people to see him alive.

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She somehow ended up with murdered Ben's phone in her pocket, which was discovered when she sobered up.

On it there was a video of her shouting at Ben. Lydia knew about the video and Liv begged her to get rid of it.

But Lydia didn't and soon the pair revealed the footage to Aaron, Ben's boyfriend and Liv's brother.

Fans watching weren't convinced by the storyline though as they pointed out some unrealistic blunders made by the police in the soap, on Twitter.

Brandon said: "Do the #police not try & track a murder victims missing phone?! #Lydia #Sam #Aaron #Liv #Emmerdale."

Grianne said: "Why the hell would Liv text Lydia saying "Please tell me you got rid of it" obviously she knows the Police could totally trace any calls/texts right? #Emmerdale."

Emma said: "Aren’t the police analysts flagging #emmerdale as a crime hot spot with a disproportionate amount of murders? We had one murder in our London borough and the analysts lost their mind."

Aaron went onto delete the potentially incriminating clip, as Wendy said: "That's destroying evidence."

He responded: "No one outside this room finds out about this."

Liv asked Aaron if he believed her and he angrily said of course he did as she was so drunk she could barely even stand never mind kill someone.

Aaron was upset as Ben had spent some of his last moments being attacked by Liv while she screamed vile things at him.

The episode ended with Lydia on the phone to the police, alerting them that she had some information.

Emmerdale airs weeknights at 7pm on ITV and ITVHub with an extra episode on Thursdays at 8pm

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