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Tourist found locked inside London bookshop
An American tourist found himself locked inside a London Waterstones bookshop for two hours after it closed while he was still browsing.
David Willis, from Texas, said he had been upstairs in the shop for 15 minutes and when he came down all the lights were out and the doors locked.
In a Twitter post, which by Friday afternoon had been retweeted by more than 12,000 people, he tweeted: "Hi Waterstones, I’ve been locked inside of your Trafalgar Square bookstore for two hours now. Please let me out."
Police were called after he let people know of his situation on Twitter and someone came to let him out.
Eventually Waterstones posted a message on its Twitter feed saying: "We’re pleased to announce that Mr Willis is a free man once more. Thanks for your concern and tweets."
Branch manager Matt Atkins told the BBC: "We’re mortified that this has happened.
"This is not the sort of thing that we want to happen and obviously we’ll investigate and deal with it."
A Metropolitan Police spokesman said police were called at about 21:35 BST ‘by a man claiming to be locked inside a shop’.
He added: "Officers attended and following the arrival of a keyholder the man left the building shortly after 11pm."
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