This poor woman was just trying to go to work when she discovered something that would rattle anyone to their core.
06.08.2022 - 21:49 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A couple who were attacked in their own home by a 6ft 4 naked intruder say they are still traumatised by the ordeal two years on.
Marjorie Bosworth said "you cannot imagine the terror we felt" after Scott Presswood, a stranger to the couple, smashed their window with a cast iron barbeque and threatened to rape and kill her husband Ted.
Since the attack, Marjorie has undergone three different sets of counselling after she was left "crying and screaming" every night. The 78-year-old says she and her husband "still feel like prisoners in our own home," which was once their "safe haven".
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Derby Crown Court heard how the dad-of-two knocked on the Bosworths' door in April 2020, while they were watching a film in their rural home. Presswood smashed his way through the couple's window with a cast iron barbeque, and then used it to batter Ted while telling him "I am Scott and I am naked".
Marjorie said: "My husband was in the lounge being beaten by a 6ft4ins naked guy fighting for his life. I was in a bedroom opposite the lounge screaming at the top of my head.
"I could hardly breathe for the feeling of fear he was going to kill us, but I managed to grab the phone and phone the police. I will never know to this day how they could understand what I was saying with all the screaming and the shouting and banging from the lounge.
"They told me to lock myself in the bedroom and take deep breaths, saying 'don't put the phone down, we are on our way, you are not alone'. I was praying to God not to let us die at the hands of this lunatic.
"The noise was horrific coming from the lounge, I tried to think what I could do to help Ted. All I
This poor woman was just trying to go to work when she discovered something that would rattle anyone to their core.
Netflix show approached him in an earlier season and asked if he could alter his voice to sound more like his seventh-grade character, Will Byers.“It was the peak time of change, and puberty and growing up and just everything was changing with all of us, and the directors were just not loving it,” Schnapp said in an interview with Flaunt. “And I remember one of the producers coming up to me and telling me, ‘Noah, is there any way you could just speak in a higher tone and just slouch a little bit? Like, we need you to keep that Season 1 innocence that you had.’ “While the show’s main cast ranged from around 12 to 14 years old when it premiered in 2016, the show’s filming schedule couldn’t compete with the growth spurts of Millie Bobby Brown, Finn Wolfhard, Gaten Matarazzo and Caleb McLaughlin.
Stranger Things‘ Noah Schnapp has revealed he’s been working as a lifeguard this summer.The actor, who plays Will Byers in the hit Netflix series, recently described the job as a “just for fun thing”.In a new interview with Flaunt, Schnapp explained that working as a lifeguard helped him feel more like a normal teenager.“It’s kind of a ‘just for fun thing,’” Schnapp told the publication.“I’ve kind of grown up with a normal life and normal friends and stuff outside of Stranger Things, so it’s kind of kept me grounded.”The actor also said on TikTok recently that he will soon be attending the University of Pennsylvania to study business.“I was thinking of going for acting,” he said, before adding: “Acting was just kind of repetitive, and I wanted to try something new.”“Millie [Bobby Brown] is doing the same thing with her schooling – she’s kind of learning about other things,” he added.In other Stranger Things news, the show’s creators Matt and Ross Duffer recently revealed the fifth season might not feature any new characters.Speaking to IndieWire, Ross Duffer said: “Whenever we introduce a new character, we want to make sure that they’re going to be an integral part of the narrative. But every time we do that, we’re nervous because you go, ‘We’ve got a great cast of characters here and actors, and any moment we’re spending with a new character, we’re taking time away from one of the other actors.’ So we’re just very, very careful about who we’re introducing.”Matt added: “I just like shaking it up, so we shake it up by changing the plot or adding in a new monster.
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Metallica have teamed up with Stranger Things to launch a new line of Hellfire Club-themed merchandise.The metal band have been enjoying a huge resurgence of their 1986 track ‘Master Of Puppets’ of late after it soundtracked a pivotal scene in the finale of the Netflix show’s fourth season.Eddie Munson (portrayed by Joseph Quinn) plays the song on guitar in the Upside Down to distract a horde of demonic bats protecting the lair of sinister villain Vecna (Jamie Campbell Bower).Munson is the leader of the Hellfire Club, a Dungeons & Dragons group at Hawkins High that also includes Mike Wheeler (Finn Wolfhard), Dustin Henderson (Gaten Matarazzo) and Lucas Sinclair (Caleb McLaughlin).The members have their own Hellfire Club shirts, which has inspired Metallica to create their own spin on the tee.“Eddie, this one’s for you,” they wrote to announce the line. “We’re having the most metal meeting ever of The Hellfire Club so we’re scouting out ‘lost sheep’ and outsiders to join.
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Stranger Things star David Harbour has admitted that he thought the show would be a disaster.During a recent appearance on BBC One’s The One Show, the Jim Hopper actor was asked if he ever expected the sci-fi Netflix series to become the huge hit it is today.“Not at all,” he told presenters Alex Jones and Jermaine Jenas. “I remember when we were shooting the first season down in Atlanta.
Hanoi Rocks guitarist Andy McCoy says he’s never been offered an apology from Mötley Crüe singer Vince Neil, whose 1984 car crash resulted in the death of the band’s drummer, Nicholas “Razzle” Dingley.Neil crashed into another car on the way back from buying alcohol in California, killing Dingley and leaving both occupants of the other car with brain damage. The incident saw Neil spend 15 days in jail and pay $2.6 million to the victims of the crash.Speaking on Artists On Record Starring ADIKA Live!, McCoy said that he was still waiting for an apology from Neil for his reckless behaviour that night.“[I’ve] never even got as much as an apology from that motherfucker,” he told the host (per Consequence). “You know who I’m talking about.