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Irish Mirror
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Connie Rusk & Susan Knox

Denise Welch feared she'd be burnt alive after stalker set fire to her home

Denise Welch has revealed she feared for her life after a stalker set fire to her £1million home during a six month reign of terror.

Toraq Wyngard, 64, was jailed for seven years and seven months on April 7, with the court hearing how Denise woke to her husband Lincoln Townley's "piercing scream" after a member of public alerted to the blaze in 2020.

Recalling the "utterly terrifying" ordeal, Denise told of the moment she saw "huge sprawling flames outside the house" in September 2020, with Toraq arrested nearby carrying a kitchen knife in his rucksack.

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