George Hutchinson

Sir George Hutchinson of the small English town of Little Hodcombe was taken over and manipulated by the Malus, who used his mind as the focus of its power.

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Holding re-enactments of the Battle of Little Hodcombe in the English Civil War, Hutchinson began to take them very seriously indeed and to have the Malus use him to use them to fuel itself with psychic energy. Hutchinson assumed the persona of a 1640s general and to order the re-enactment participants like real soldiers. When the Doctor, Tegan and Turlough who had just arrived in the TARDIS, arrived he had his second-in-command Joseph Willow capture him. (The time travellers had come to Little Hodcombe because Tegan's grandfather, Andrew Verney lived in Little Hodcombe and she wanted to visit him.) When they persisted in interfering, Hutchinson tried to have Tegan burned alive as in old Queen of the May tradition.

Eventually, Will Chandler, who the Malus had physically transported from the time of the English Civil War, killed Hutchinson by throwing him at a physical manifestation of the Malus. (DW: The Awakening)