Batman: Bradford's Caped Crusader Unmasked

The likely identity of Bradford's very own Batman has been revealed.

A mystery was sparked when an anonymous man dressed in a full Batman costume handed in a suspected burglar to officers at Trafalgar House police station in Bradford.

CCTV images were released by the police in the hope of tracking down the undercover superhero.

The pictures showed a caped crusader - fully clad with the comic hero's boots, gloves and logo across his chest - standing alongside a man in a red hooded sweatshirt.

It has now been revealed that the man dressed as Batman was a friend of the man who was turned in, and later arrested.

Stan Warby, 39, told The Daily Telegraph he had been at a football match dressed as the superhero when Danny Frayne called him asking for help in handing himself in to officers.

The Chinese takeaway driver accompanied Frayne, 27, to Trafalgar House police station as a favour, after returning from Bradford City's cup final clash against Swansea at London's Wembley Stadium on February 25.

Mr Warby told the Daily Telegraph: "It was a joke at the end of the day, and Danny wanted to go to the police station.

"I had spoken to Danny during the week and tried to knock some sense into him.

"It was getting on my nerves having police round all the time asking for him or his whereabouts.

"Danny's a good friend of mine and I've known him for 15 years or so. Who knows if I'll be doing some more crime-fighting in the future?"

He added that he had attracted some "strange looks".

Frayne is due to appear in court on March 8 charged with handling stolen goods and fraud-related offences.

Batman has been around as a fictional character since 1939, usually fighting crime in Gotham City.

In the original story his alter-ego was a billionaire philanthropist who decided to devote his life to fighting crime after his parents were both murdered.