Uncle dashes out of his house STARK NAKED to chase ‘van driver abducting his niece’

A naked, 18-stone uncle ran into the street to chase a van driver he thought was abducting his niece but was embarrassed to find out it was a false alarm.

Nathan Murphy, 29, woke up in a panic when he heard his family shouting that his niece Lucy, 11, had been taken in North Ormesby, Middlesbrough.

The big man ran downstairs accidentally grabbing a T-shirt rather than his trousers in the panic before face-planting into his father Michael’s car.

After embarrassing himself in front of neighbours, Nathan found out the whole episode had been a mistake and was also caught on CCTV.

Nathan Murphy, 29, ran out of his house naked to chase a van driver he thought was abducting his niece, only to find out it was a false alarm North Ormesby, Middlesbrough

The 18-stone uncle face-planted into his father Michael’s car after he woke up in a panic and did not have time to put on his clothes

In the video, mum-of-four Natalie Murphy, 40, shouts: ‘What the f***. That’s our Lucy that is. It’s Lucy I swear.’

As a white van drives away, she runs out the front garden into the street followed by her panicked family.

People shout to ring the police before Nathan comes bursting out the house in the nude.

He runs to Michael’s car as it reverses and falls face first into the door holding a T-shirt as his father shouts: ‘Get in the car.’

As he climbs into the car, Natalie realises her mistake telling the family her daughter was there and Nathan hobbles back into the house as the family break into laughter.

Natalie (top-left) runs after the van into the street carrying her two-year-old daughter Kalise as another family member watches on

A relieved Natalie (left) sits down while the family laugh about Nathan’s naked appearance on the street

Retired bricklayer Michael, 64, shared the hilarious CCTV footage from July 8 on Facebook. 

Nathan said: ‘As I was waking up all I heard was screaming. I opened the window and thought someone had been run over or was getting stabbed or something.

‘I jumped up out the bed, tried to find my clothes and I ended up just grabbing a t-shirt thinking it was my bottoms and I flew downstairs.

‘When I was on the front I heard ‘kidnap’ and thought ‘wow, this is serious’.

Nathan (left) says he was worried he would be put ‘on some register’ after the whole street saw him naked. Right: Mother-of-four Natalie Murphy, 40, with her 11-year-old daughter Lucy

‘I’m a big lad, I’m 18 stone, but I can move when I need to and because the adrenaline was rushing through me I went weak in the legs and I just fell over.

‘As I got in the car I saw Lucy come round the corner, so I got out and that’s when the embarrassment kicked in.

‘I felt stupid and was thinking ‘I hope one of the mothers don’t report me’ because all their kids had seen my downstairs and I didn’t want to be put on some register.’

Natalie, who lives a minute’s walk away with Lucy, Kalise, two, and Millie Murphy, nine, said it was a ‘mum’s worst nightmare’.

Natalie said fearing Lucy had been abducted was a ‘mum’s worse nightmare’. Left-to-right: Lucy, Michael, Millie, Nathan and Natalie Murphy with Kalise Grange

She said: ‘There must have been someone going past, having an argument, booting the van, then I heard ‘mam’ and I thought someone grabbed her into the back of the van.

‘My heart skipped a beat, it was so scary. I was screaming “Lucy” and then she came round the corner and said “mam, I thought something was happening to you”.

‘Obviously that was a huge relief, then I was walking back to the house and the next thing I know Nathan’s outside b*****k naked.

‘I couldn’t stop laughing, but at least I know he’s got my back and I know he’s going to be there for me.

‘I asked him what he’d have done if it did really happen and he followed this van, because he’d have been bare-a*** boxing with someone.’