List of Emmerdale characters introduced in 2004

The courts, however, do not allow Zoe to adopt Noah, due to her current workload, other family commitments and mental illness, so Charity takes him back and leaves the village.

Noah lives happily in Tug Ghyll up until early 2011 when Cain gets paranoid about Charity and Jai Sharma (Chris Bisson) apparently having an affair.

Noah is responsible for bullying Liv Flaherty (Isobel Steele) online, which is discovered by Robert Sugden (Ryan Hawley), who threatens him with shutting down his website.

Thomas was sending her photos in the post of her and Carl together with her eyes on the pictures scratched out, telephoning the pub on a withheld number, and slightly injuring her when he throws a glass bottle at her outside The Woolpack.

Nicola's half-sister, Bernice Blackstock (Samantha Giles), gets her boyfriend Steve Harland (Tom Mannion) to give Thomas a job at the stables at Home Farm.

[16] Emmerdale producer, Sophie Roper described these storylines: "The behaviour Tom King is exhibiting is typical of a coercive controlling relationship and at times will prove difficult and uncomfortable to watch.

Later, Thomas and Anya return to the cemetery following the wake and meet Cameron Murray (Dominic Power), who unbeknownst to them is their father's real killer, by the graveside.

The following day, Sean Spencer (Luke Roskell) invites Thomas and Anya to party his father Dan (Liam Fox) is holding in the café.

Swirling appears to speak with Debbie Dingle (Charley Webb) after she gives her daughter Sarah Sugden (Lily-Mae Bartley) to Emily Kirk (Kate McGregor), who has left the country with her.

Swirling later appears when investigating a series of robberies at the local bed and breakfast and The Woolpack pub, where Marlon Dingle (Mark Charnock) is attacked.

Swirling appears again during storylines about the disappearance of Mark Wylde (Maxwell Caulfield), Holly Barton's (Sophie Powles) drug abuse, Jimmy King's (Nick Miles) amnesia, and Laurel Thomas' (Charlotte Bellamy) carjacking.

Swirling later features when Bernice Blackstock (Samantha Giles) is handcuffed by a man who steals her belongings, and again when he arrests Debbie Dingle for stabbing a customer who makes sexually advances to her.

Since, the character appears as part of storylines about Laurel's alcoholism, Alicia Metcalfe's (Natalie Anderson) sexual assault at the hands of Lachlan White (Thomas Atkinson), the hit-and-run death of Tess Harris (Nicola Stephenson), Harriet Finch's (Katherine Dow Blyton) stabbing, multiple teenage characters joyriding, Ross Barton's (Michael Parr) acid attack and Debbie's involvement in the attack, and the disappearance of Rebecca White (Emily Head).

Martin later begins a relationship with established character Louise Appleton (Emily Symons) but it ends following the revelation of her killing Ray Mullan (Seamus Gubbins).

[20] Hawley told Alison Gardner of What's on TV that he found it ironic as John Stape the next soap opera character he played, in Coronation Street, was a murderer.

[20] Martin is the investigating officer when Jack Sugden (Clive Hornby) is accidentally shot in the chest by his adoptive son, Andy (Kelvin Fletcher).

He returns to the village when he invesitgates Scott Windsor (Ben Freeman) and Syd Woolfe's (Nathan Gladwell) savage beating of Pearl Ladderbanks' (Meg Johnson) rapist son, Frank Bernard Hartbourne (Rob Parry).

Louise offers to babysit landlady Diane Sugden's stepdaughter Victoria (Hannah Midgley) and takes her to a Karate class where she bumps into Martin.

Upon learning that Sam Dingle (James Hooton) helped his wife Alice (Ursula Holden-Gill) who had terminal cancer, to die, Martin sets out to arrest him.

When Zoe leaves the village, he helps her tamper with the gas pipes and timer, and so causes an explosion when the King family, who had conned her out the property, arrive.

Following Tom's death on Christmas Day 2006, Dean carries his coffin at the funeral along with Jimmy (Nick Miles), Matthew (Matt Healy) and Carl.

When they see Rosemary Sinclair's (Linda Thorson) name plate from her coffin, Dean reveals to them that Matthew had dug up her body and crushed it in a rubbish truck.

Tom's son, Max King (Charlie Kemp) went to talk to Craig and his wife, Sandra Briggs (Sally Ann Matthews) about the land and even tries to charm her in the process.

In 2004, he corners Pearl Ladderbanks (Meg Johnson) when her rapist son Frank Bernard Hartbourne (Rob Parry) moves to the village after being released from prison.

Frank later mingles with the locals in the Woolpack but when he confirms his identity to barmaid Louise Appleton (Emily Symons), prompting an angry reaction from Viv and many other villagers.

[28] At a local community action meeting organised by Viv, it evident that many villagers do not take kindly to having a rapist living amongst them and tempers flare and a mob arrive outside Jacob's fold and a rock is thrown through the window.

Shane told Inside Soap's Allison Maund that naturally both men cheat at the tasks, but Solomon is "craftier" and wins three of the challenges, as well as Zak's house.

[37] On 1 October 2024, 20 years after his appearance, Mystic was mentioned again after Belle Dingle (Eden Taylor-Draper) attacked her husband, Thomas King (James Chase) with an axe in self-defence.

To pursue her singing career, she then leaves her four children - named after the Apostles - with her cousin Marlon Dingle (Mark Charnock) for a month before collecting them on 21 November.

Matthew first visits Emmerdale in October 2004 for a Dingle family celebration to mark their 10th anniversary of living in the village, leaving on his eighth birthday on 21 November 2004.