Sherlock Filming With Benedict Cumberbatch And Martin Freeman Cut Short By Riots On London Streets

PRESS ASSOCIATION -- Looting on the streets of London has forced filming on BBC1 hit Sherlock to be cut short.

A second series of the show - starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman - is being filmed in the city this week.

Co-creator Mark Gatiss announced that work on the show had to be curtailed with a message on Twitter.

He wrote: "This is a new one on me. Scene incomplete owing to approaching looters. Unbelievable times."

Both Cumberbatch and Freeman were on set in north London when work was abandoned on the production this afternoon.