Benedict Cumberbatch: Former chef attacked actor's home

Actor Benedict Cumberbatch's location successful London was attacked and damaged by a erstwhile cook wielding a food knife.

Cumberbatch, his woman and their 3 children were astatine location erstwhile Jack Bissell, 35, kicked done the beforehand garden's robust gate.

He shouted: "I cognize you've moved here, I anticipation it burns down," a tribunal was told earlier this month.

Bissell pleaded blameworthy to transgression harm astatine Wood Green Crown Court connected 10 May and was fined £250.

He was besides fixed a three-year restraining bid preventing him going adjacent Cumberbatch's household and the country they unrecorded in.

Details of the lawsuit were prevented from being reported until broad restrictions were successfully challenged by the Daily Mail this week.

Bissell, who antecedently worked arsenic a cook astatine a Mayfair edifice until 2020, pulled up a works and threw it astatine the plot partition earlier spitting astatine the intercom and tearing it escaped utilizing a food knife, the tribunal was told.

He fled the country but was arrested aft his DNA was recovered connected the intercom, according to reports.

A root adjacent to Cumberbatch told the Daily Mail: "Naturally each of the household were perfectly terrified and thought this feline was going to get successful and wounded them.

"Luckily it ne'er went that far. Benedict and Sophie person had galore sleepless nights since worrying that they whitethorn beryllium targeted again."

The prosecution told the tribunal that anterior to his attack, Bissell bought 2 packs of pitta breadstuff from a adjacent store and told the shopkeeper helium was going to interruption successful and pain down the house.

It is not wide wherefore Bissell targeted Cumberbatch and helium offered nary defence successful court.

He has a erstwhile condemnation for theft, 3 warnings for offences against property, a nationalist bid offence and a cause offence. In 2015, helium was photographed being arrested during protests against subject involution successful Syria successful cardinal London.

Cumberbatch is champion known for the pb relation successful the BBC's Sherlock, and for films specified arsenic Doctor Strange, The Imitation Game and The Power of the Dog.