
Actress Stephanie Beacham feared for her life when she was terrorised by an armed burglar and has been frightened in her own home and struggling to remember her lines at work, a court heard.
The 75-year-old Coronation Street star was alone at her £750,000 Bayswater cottage when she came face-to-face with serial burglar David Wilson, brandishing a crow bar and demanding she hand over money and jewellery.