The Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Doctor Strange may have plenty of protection spells in place to safeguard the Sanctum Santorum from being infiltrated or attacked, but Benedict Cumberbatch‘s real-life home couldn’t call upon any sorcery when a knife-wielding intruder trespassed on the grounds of his abode.
Per The Daily Mail, the Academy Award-nominated star, his wife, and three children were inside when Jack Bissell kicked his way through an iron gate at the front of the property, before making his way into the garden. From there, the former chef threw a plant at a wall, spat on the intercom, and even prized it from its fittings using a fish knife.
Incredibly, though, the culprit was only fined £250 and given a three-year restraining order that bans him from coming anywhere near either the Cumberbatch family or the area in which they reside. What makes the sentence seem all the more lenient is that Bissell reportedly even told a local shopkeeper that he was on his way to the MCU veteran’s house to burn it to the ground, so maybe a harsher punishment should have been in order.
Either way, it must have been a terrifying ordeal for Cumberbatch and spouse Sophie Hunter, especially when the pair’s three kids are still so young. Bissell didn’t even offer a defense while in the courtroom, which is all the more unsettling when his motives for specifically deciding that The Power of the Dog‘s leading man and his residence as the subject of his ire remain unclear.
