Scared Loose Women star Denise Welch has fear being burnt alive after a stalker set fire to her home.

Denise fled from her £1million home she shares as the late-night blaze erupted.

She said: “We thought he was trying to kill us.

“It was just terrifying. It doesn’t bear thinking about.”

Her trial began in September 2020 and only ended this month when deranged arsonist Toraq Wyngard, got jail for around eight years, after admitting charges of stalking and arson.

She has also appeared in Hollyocks, she 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. I ran downstairs in my pyjamas and saw huge sprawling flames outside the house.

“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.

“Lewis called 999, and at this point I remember Lincoln jumping into my car and moving it out of the drive.

“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.

“I could see the fire catching onto the garage and everything melting at the top.

“The fire brigade were very prompt but for anybody who’s ever waited for them, they’ll know that the wait seems like forever.

“They said if they hadn’t turned up when they did, without a doubt it could have been a disaster.”

It showed that Wyngard, a former Burberry model, roaming around outside the property seconds beforehand.

Denise told: “Lincoln immediately scoured the footage on his phone and before I knew it had given chase to the man and run into the graveyard opposite. Thank God he didn’t catch him.

The footage was given to cops who arrested Wyngard hours later. When he was held by officers, he was found to be carrying a four-inch knife.

When couple looked at Wyngard’s social media, they were left horrified when they spotted one of him alongside unsuspecting Denise.

She said: “We turned into TV detectives Dempsey and Makepeace, scouring over every aspect of social media to see if I appeared in this man’s photos.

She added: “We didn’t know if he was mentally ill, if he was going to get released, if he had a gang working for him who would continue with his work and target us.

“It was utterly terrifying and for six months it completely changed the way I lived my life.

“Every time our security lights went off — set off by a cat or a fox — I was terrified.

“I stopped sleeping, I had nightmares, it affected my emotions.

“I felt I couldn’t talk about it, not even to my friends in case it jeopardized the case.

“Lincoln started getting up at 5am with me when I had an early call for Hollyoaks, and walking me to my car, because we didn’t know that he wouldn’t be lurking outside, ready to attack.

“I’m not a nervy person by nature — I’d always felt safe in my own house — but when someone sets fire to your home, it changes you forever.”

Instead of his arrest, Wyngard turned up at Denise’s home again in February last year.

And CCTV caught him in the days before surveying the property.

It said: “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life”. It also had another cross.

She said: “With stalking, it’s always been that thing of, ‘We can’t do anything until he kills you’. The Harm Reduction Unit was there for us as a family, day and night.

When she tried to shield him from what was going on, he was aware of her troubles.

She added: “I remember driving to Cheshire police station for a three-hour interview, and at the time was waiting to hear if my dad had cancer or not.

“My fear, my trauma, became anger at this point. This man tried to destroy my wonderful life. I’m just so grateful he is now behind bars.

“I feel a weight has been lifted from my shoulders, and now I just need to try and look forward again and hope that more can be done now for the victims of stalking or the victims of arson.”

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