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David Williams of Dukinfield, Greater Manchester was held by police for 13 hours following a colossal misunderstanding.

Police were responding to a complaint regarding nuisance phone calls Williams had received when one of the officers spotted the six-foot-tall statue of Lara Croft and mistook it for a real, armed gunman.

The officers called for back up, and Williams was held at gunpoint. He was then pinned to the ground, cuffed and interrogated.

“The cops burst in through the back door and knocked me to the ground. One jabbed a gun in the back of my neck and said, ‘Alright, where’s the gun?’,” Williams said. “I said, ‘I don’t have one’ - they weren’t happy and searched the house.

“They must have soon realized what had happened because the PC who called for help was getting a lot of stick.”

Williams, who runs a computer games store, had the limited edition statue near his living room window. While this might explain the police officers’ mistake, Williams said, “I can’t believe the police would be so stupid.”