petrified

One night in Monaco, Rachael says she woke up "petrified" to find Salah getting into her bed.

"I know from conversations with people in government and in the intelligence services in Europe that they are petrified of the prospect of Trump coming back to office."

It was one of the first times I’d covered an event on my own, and I was petrified, like a rabbit in the headlights standing in the scrum of reporters and flashing cameras.

"As a 13-year-old, I didn't realise exactly what was going on. I was petrified of him, I was vulnerable at that age and naïve, and he knew it."

She said she had heard of children starting secondary school petrified of knife crime and ending up carrying a knife themselves for protection.