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"It's a continuation of a very frightening trend that we've seen over recent weeks where 10 people have lost their lives over the last 10 weeks," he added.

Thomas, the gentler of the two, draws most of Ray’s abuse, and it shapes him into a meek and easily frightened being.

She was also a severe asthmatic, always followed by a "frightened minion carrying her asthma inhaler, as though it were a crown, or a sceptre of some sort".

"A lot of people were crying around me. They were very frightened. I was trying to calm them down."

“This is very frightening, but I accept full responsibility for everything with my car accident,” Huger tearfully told producers.