Sherlock Holmes running to rescue a pedestrian in distress sounds exactly like something out of the original book series – but earlier this week, that heroic story actually came to life.
Uber driver Manuel Dias was escorting a middle-aged married couple to their destination when they suddenly saw a bicyclist being mobbed by four young men.
The cyclist, who was a delivery driver for meal delivery service Deliveroo, had just removed his helmet when the attackers broke a bottle over his head and started to hit him.
Dias’s passenger jumped out of the car and ran into the fray, yelling “Leave him alone” – and it was then that he realized that his passenger was none other than Benedict Cumberbatch, the film and television actor from BBC’s Sherlock and Dr. Strange.
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As 53-year-old Dias ran to help Cumberbatch, the Sherlock star pulled the young men off of the bicyclist and discouraged them from the attack.
“I had hold of one lad and Benedict another. He…
