Denise Welch has moved house following her stalking nightmare.
The Loose Women regular, 65, has revealed she and husband Lincoln Townley have relocated now her stalker has been sent to jail for setting fire to her property.
Toraq Wyngard, 65, was put behind bars for seven years and seven months after starting touching a skip on the couple’s drive, which spread to her garage back in September 2020.
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Denise was at home at the time of the incident but a concerned passer-by raised the alarm for the former Coronation Street actress to take action. The TV personality has confirmed that she’s left out of her former home in Wilmslow, Cheshire.
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Taking to X, formerly known as Twitter, Denise tweeted a broadband company to complain that the service at her old house is yet to be cancelled. She wrote: “For 2 weeks I’ve tried via your system to cancel my service, every time it says someone will contact me. They haven’t. I don’t want to pay for a service I no longer need as we’ve moved.”
Denise has previously recalled the frightening incident during an episode of Loose Women two years after he was jailed at Chester Crown Court. She told her co-stars how she realised something was wrong when hubby Lincoln let out a “piercing scream”, having answered a knock at the door.
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She said: “You know that scream from someone that you don’t want to hear? I ran downstairs and the boys were all outside. We had a skip in the drive and it was full of wood and very flammable stuff. It was ablaze and it was trying to catch on to the trees.
“There was lady at the door who I didn’t know saying, ‘I hope it’s alright I knocked on your door’. I thought, ‘My God, you’ve potentially saved our lives here’. Lincoln jumped into my car, drove it out and, at which point, the flames came through the side of the skip. They would have caught the car. It emotionally terrorises you. Lincoln and I have to be apart for work reasons and I had never, ever been scared. “It has completely changed that.”
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Chester Crown Court heard at the time that the fire caused £4,285 worth of damage to Denise and Lincoln’s £800,000 home. Wyngard was arrested and police discovered a kitchen knife in his rucksack.
He pleaded guilty to stalking, causing serious alarm or distress, between September 18, 2020 and February 11, 2021 and also admitted to charges of possession of a knife, criminal damage, and arson. He was sentenced to seven years and seven months behind bars.
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