Billy Truscott

Billy Truscott was a poacher living in Treawtha in the 19th century. While poaching on Tobias Philby's grounds, he witnessed Philby's vessel and the Doctor's TARDIS materialising and fled in terror. Shocked at what he saw, he was barely coherent until the visiting Doctor snapped him back into sanity. After Billy told his story, the villagers, spurred on by the rector, decided to punish Philby for his seeming practice of black magic. (TVC: The Amateur)