TERRIFIED Loose Women star Denise Welch has told how she feared being burnt alive after a stalker set fire to her home. The ex-Coronation Street actress fled from the £1million home she shares with her artist husband Lincoln Townley as the late-night blaze erupted.
Denise, 63, said: “We thought he was trying to kill us. “It was just terrifying. It doesn’t bear thinking about.” Her ordeal began in September 2020 and only ended this month when deranged arsonist Toraq Wyngard, 53, was jailed for nearly eight years after admitting charges of stalking and arson.
CCTV footage shows the former model creeping around outside the couple’s luxury home in Wilmslow, Cheshire — close to a clutch of Manchester United players.
Denise, who has also appeared in Hollyoaks, said: “I remember that we’d been to the pub that night for dinner, and I’d gone to bed early, at about 10pm, leaving Lincoln with his son, Lewis, and my brother-in-law Duncan, downstairs watching a boys’ film, volume turned up full blast as boys tend to do. “Suddenly, I heard Lincoln screaming.
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