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Tolfree said later that night, she smelled something burning, but never thought it could be her phone. “I didn’t think much of it, so I went back to sleep and then I woke up again and it was more prominent,” she said.
Tolfree’s dad however believes the phone overheated, causing the battery to swell and ignite a small fire.
In another development, Holly Hewett, 25, plugged her phone in to charge while she slept, but she was later woken up by a sizzling sound and the smell of the burning phone. She explains;
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'I noticed it was running low on battery so I plugged it in and put it on charge.
'At about 5am I checked the time again then rolled over and went back to sleep, but within about 10 minutes of that I heard a sizzling sound.
'Even though it was dark I could smell the smoke. I picked it up and the screen sparked.
'As I walked to the bathroom the battery fell out of the casing at the back onto the floor.
'I didn’t burn myself but there's a hole in the carpet where it scorched it. The smell was awful, so I opened a window.'
'I was on my own and panicked because I'd got no house phone so I didn’t know how to contact anyone to let them know what had
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