Man locked in bookshop goes on Twitter for help

A tourist who became a Twitter sensation after he was locked inside a closed London bookshop for two hours declared "it feels good to be free".

David Willis had been browsing in Waterstones in Trafalgar Square on Thursday night, but went downstairs shortly after 9pm to find the lights out and the shop deserted.

This is me locked inside a waterstones bookstore in London. I was upstairs for 15 minutes and came… http://t.co/EefA1antuG

— David Willis (@DWill_) October 16, 2014