Jonathan Creek’s real-life mystery
Alan Davies tracks burglar who struck while kids were home with babysitter
As amateur sleuth Jonathan Creek, he used lateral thinking to explain the unexplainable.
Now Alan Davies is using Twitter for some real-life detective work after a man broke into his house while his children were at home with a babysitter.
The comedian, 54, has posted snap shots of CCTV footage showing the face of two men who targeted his north London home on two separate occasions in a bid to catch them.
One of them tried to break in through his front door a few days ago, only to have Davies open it to his face.
‘Anyone else got any pictures of robbers? Here’s the chap who tried to break into my front door the other day, taken about two seconds after I opened it,’ he wrote alongside the image on Twitter. ‘Lockdown is making his life difficult I imagine, with everyone at home.’
He said that another attempt to burgle his house before lockdown was successful when a man broke in while he and his wife Katie were out and a babysitter was watching susie, ten, Robert, eight, and threeyear-old Francis.
‘Here’s another robber. This one did break in and steal stuff, I was out, just the babysitter was at home, and the three kids in bed,’ he said. ‘He was walking the dog with a young woman, and trying doors as he went past. We’ve got a new lock now.’ He said he and his wife were at the cinema at the time.
Davies became a household name in 1997 when the BBC detective show – in which he played a socially awkward illusionist who lives in a windmill and has a talent for solving ‘supernatural’ mysteries – became a huge hit. He most recently played Creek in the 2016 Christmas special.