Who is Van Helsing in Dracula?

The new Dracula has thrown in a curveball as far as Van Helsing is concerned (Picture: BBC)
(spoiler alert) BBC One’s new adaptation of Dracula delivered a pretty big surprise to viewers as its gruesome first instalment came to an end.
Because having slaughtered a bunch of nuns in a shockingly graphic bloodbath, it emerged that Sister Agatha (Dolly Wells) is in fact Van Helsing – the vampire’s ultimate adversary.
All of which has twisted proceedings up a little, given that the