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Emmerdale's Victoria Barton receives sinister message from rapist

A devastated Victoria Barton revealed that she received a text message from her rapist just a day after his vile attack, and the contents were sickening.

After reliving the horrifying ordeal to Moira, the farmer noticed that Victoria's phone was broken and asked whether Lee had smashed it.

But Victoria revealed that she had broken the phone after receiving a disturbing text from Lee the next day.

"He texted me the day after and I thought he might apologise or threatened me to keep quiet," she said. "But he just said that he'd had fun."

Victoria recalled the horrifying night to Moira (ITV)
Victoria was left traumatised by the ordeal (ITV)

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"Fun?" Moira asked in horror.

"'Fun night, loved it. Soz I had to go. xx'" Victoria said. "So I threw it at the wall."

Earlier, Moira tried to gently get her to tell her family about what had happened.

Lee sent her a text after the rape (ITV)

"Locking it up inside you isn't going to do you any good," Moira said. "You want to be able to talk to people like Dianne and Robert who care so much about you."

However Victoria insisted that she didn't want to tell them and heartbreakingly confided in Moira that she felt guilty about what had happened because she let him come into her house.

Breaking down in tears, she said: "I know he raped me, but I also know how it looks."

*Emmerdale airs tomorrow at 7pm on ITV

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