Ben Tucker

Ben Tucker was the boyfriend of Aaron Dingle and the fifth known murder victim of serial killer Meena Jutla.
==Biography==
===2020-2021: Time in Emmerdale===
Ben first appears in September 2020 as an employee of Hawksford Outdoor Pursuits, who Liv Flaherty suspects her brother Aaron has a crush on, due to Aaron spending an increasing amount of time up at the HOP. However it is later revealed that Ben and Aaron went to the same secondary school and while there Aaron and his friends waged a campaign of homophobic abuse towards Ben. Ben eventually pushes Aarons previous treatment of him to the side and the pair start a romance. 
In 2021, Ben supports Aaron through Liv's alcoholism that she suffers in the fallout from the death of Paul Ashdale. Liv becomes suspicious of Ben when she see's him helping a drunk man into a taxi. When Liv confronts Ben, Ben convinces Aaron that Liv got it wrong because she was drunk. When Aaron finds out that Ben's father is an alcoholic he says Ben can move into Mill Cottage, but Ben declines saying he does not want to move from living with one alcoholic to another. Unbeknownst to Aaron and Liv, Ben is actually homeless and lives in a hut up at the HOP. 
In July 2021, Wendy Posner lets Ben move into her son Luke's old room at Dale View.
In November 2021, Meena Jutla hit Ben over the head with a wooden oar and killed him.
In April 2022, Meena was found guilty of Ben's murder, as well as the murders of Leanna Cavanagh and Andrea Tate, and was later sentenced to life imprisonment with a 25-year tariff for each murder.
==Residences==
Address 	Duration
Kayak hut at Hawksford Outdoor Pursuits (temporary)	Until 23rd July 2021
Apartment One, Mill Cottage (temporary) 	23rd July 2021 to 26th July 2021
The Grange (temporary) 	26th July 2021 to 27th July 2021
Dale View 	27th July 2021 to 25th November 2021
==Quotes==
"Alright?" - First line, to Aaron Dingle.
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"Help!" - Last line before being bludgeoned with a wooden oar by Meena Jutla, leading to his death.
==See also==
*Full list of appearances
Category:Emmerdale characters
Category:2020 debuts
Category:Hawksford Outdoor Pursuits employees
Category:Residents of Dale View
Category:2021 deaths
Category:2021 departures