'Naked stranger smashed his way into my country home and threatened to rape my husband'

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A couple who were attacked in their own home by a 6ft 4 naked intruder say they are still traumatised by the ordeal two years on.

Marjorie Bosworth said "you cannot imagine the terror we felt" after Scott Presswood, a stranger to the couple, smashed their window with a cast iron barbeque and threatened to rape and kill her husband Ted.

Since the attack, Marjorie has undergone three different sets of counselling after she was left "crying and screaming" every night. The 78-year-old says she and her husband "still feel like prisoners in our own home," which was once their "safe haven".

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Derby Crown Court heard how the dad-of-two knocked on the Bosworths' door in April 2020, while they were watching a film in their rural home. Presswood smashed his way through the couple's window with a cast iron barbeque, and then used it to batter Ted while telling him "I am Scott and I am naked".

Marjorie said: "My husband was in the lounge being beaten by a 6ft4ins naked guy fighting for his life. I was in a bedroom opposite the lounge screaming at the top of my head.

"I could hardly breathe for the feeling of fear he was going to kill us, but I managed to grab the phone and phone the police. I will never know to this day how they could understand what I was saying with all the screaming and the shouting and banging from the lounge.

"They told me to lock myself in the bedroom and take deep breaths, saying 'don't put the phone down, we are on our way, you are not alone'. I was praying to God not to let us die at the hands of this lunatic.

"The noise was horrific coming from the lounge, I tried to think what I could do to help Ted. All I