Denise Welch thought she'd be 'burnt alive' after stalker set fire to her home
17.04.2022 - 16:57
/ ok.co.uk
Denise Welch has revealed that she was left fearing for her life after a stalker started a fire outside of her house. The Loose Women panellist, 63, was forced to flee her home in September 2020 after Toraq Wyngard set fire to a skip outside the property in Cheshire. Following the ordeal, Wyngard was sentenced at Chester Crown Court and received seven years and seven months behind bars earlier this month.
And now TV personality Denise has detailed the scary incident to The Sun. Speaking to the publication, she said: “We thought he was trying to kill us. “It was just terrifying.
It doesn’t bear thinking about.” Bravely recalling the frightening ordeal, the Waterloo Road actress revealed that she’d been at the home with her husband Lincoln Townley, his son and her brother-in-law. Get exclusive celebrity stories and fabulous photoshoots straight to your inbox with OK!'s daily newsletter. As the men settled down to watch a film, Denise was asleep in bed but was woken up when she heard Lincoln’s screams.
“Suddenly, I heard Lincoln screaming. I ran downstairs in my pyjamas and saw huge sprawling flames outside the house,” she explained. “A lady had seen the fire outside as she was driving past and knocked on the front door to alert us.
“Thank God she did because otherwise who knows if I would be here today.” After being alerted to the fire, Denise described how Lincoln quickly jumped into action and moved her car out of the couple’s driveway. “Within seconds of him moving it, flames started spreading rapidly, they would have caught my car and the whole thing would have gone up and exploded,” she explained. After the fire brigade put out the blaze, Lincoln and Denise checked their CCTV cameras and saw Wyngard outside of the
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