Loose Women star reveals she’s been forced to move house after stalker was sent to jail for setting fire at her home

LOOSE Women star Denise Welch has moved house in the wake of her stalking nightmare.

Denise, 65, has revealed she and husband Lincoln Townley have upped sticks now her stalker is behind bars for torching her property.

Toraq Wyngard, 64, was jailed for seven years and seven months after starting a blaze in a skip on her driveway, which then spread to her garage.

The former Coronation Street actress was home at the time of the terrifying incident but thankfully a worried passer-by quickly raised the alarm.

Denise has now confirmed she has moved out of her former family home in Wilmslow, Cheshire.

Taking to X, formerly known as Twitter, she has publicly tweeted a broadband company to complain that the service at her old house is yet to be cancelled.

“For 2 weeks I’ve tried via your system to cancel my service,” Denise wrote. “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 was at home with Lincoln and her husband’s family when crazed Wyngard struck in September 2020.

Two years later, after he was jailed at Chester Crown Court, the actress recalled the frightening incident during an episode of Loose Women.

She told her co-stars how she realised something was wrong when Lincoln let out a “piercing scream”, having answered a knock at the door.

Denise 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’.”

She continued: “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.”

By the time firefighters had raced to the scene, the blaze had spread to Denise’s garage and was melting her guttering.

Chester Crown Court had heard that the fire caused £4,285 worth of damage to Denise and Lincoln’s £800,000 home.

Wyngard was arrested nearby 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.

He also admitted to charges of possession of a knife, criminal damage, and arson. He was sentenced to seven years and seven months behind bars.

“It emotionally terrorises you,” Denise admitted on Loose Women. “Lincoln and I have to be apart for work reasons and I had never, ever been scared.

“It has completely changed that.”