 From 2004, she studied Performing Arts at the Parkgate campus.In September 1998, at the age of 14, Duffy was briefly put in a police safe house when authorities uncovered a plot by her stepfather's ex-wife to pay a hitman £3,000 to kill her stepfather, Philip Smith.Smith's ex-wife, Dawn Watson, was sentenced to a 3½-year jail term for soliciting to murder.