UK Batman unmasks as takeaway deliverer
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March 6, 2013, Wednesday
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A takeaway delivery man reveals that he is the mysterious crime-fighter whose image went viral online after he walked into a British police station dressed as Batman and handed over a wanted man.
Stan Worby, 39, said yesterday he was "gobsmacked" by worldwide coverage of his antics and revealed that the man he turned into police was a friend.
Worby sparked a wave of theories about his identity on Monday when police released a CCTV image of a man dressed as the comic book hero, delivering the suspect to a police station in Bradford, northern England.
He told dumbstruck officers: "I've caught this one for you!" before vanishing into the night on the early hours of February 25.
Danny Frayne, 27, is charged with handling stolen goods and fraud-related offences and will appear in court on Friday.
Worby, who works for a Chinese takeaway, said his friend had wanted to hand himself in. "Obviously it was done as a joke," Worby told ITV television.
Worby said he had been at a football match in London on February 24 - wearing the Batman outfit - when Frayne called to ask if he could give him a lift to the police station.
"I told him as soon as I was home I would run him to Bradford central police station."
Stan Worby, 39, said yesterday he was "gobsmacked" by worldwide coverage of his antics and revealed that the man he turned into police was a friend.
Worby sparked a wave of theories about his identity on Monday when police released a CCTV image of a man dressed as the comic book hero, delivering the suspect to a police station in Bradford, northern England.
He told dumbstruck officers: "I've caught this one for you!" before vanishing into the night on the early hours of February 25.
Danny Frayne, 27, is charged with handling stolen goods and fraud-related offences and will appear in court on Friday.
Worby, who works for a Chinese takeaway, said his friend had wanted to hand himself in. "Obviously it was done as a joke," Worby told ITV television.
Worby said he had been at a football match in London on February 24 - wearing the Batman outfit - when Frayne called to ask if he could give him a lift to the police station.
"I told him as soon as I was home I would run him to Bradford central police station."
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