A Lancashire paper’s graphic designer is in talks with solicitors after being wrongly branded a ‘skiver’ on a prime time television show.

Roger Evans, who works for the Burnley Express, was un-knowingly featured on the BBC1 docu-soap The Investigators.

The programme, which follows the work of private detectives, showed a detective spying on Roger after he had been suspected of moonlighting for another company.

Viewers watched as Roger left his home in Burnley and travelled to the Express offices in the town centre.

It was only at the end of the programme that the detective revealed he had been following the wrong man after a mix-up with the address.

But Roger says that many people didn’t watch the programme all the way through – and as a result his phone was inundated with friends telling him he had been implicated on the show.

He explained: “As soon as the programme was broadcast, there were people ringing the house. To say I was shocked by this invasion of privacy was a massive understatement.

“Some people might not have watched the programme to the end or have gone out to make a cup of tea when they admitted they had got the wrong man.”

Now Roger is taking legal advice and is deciding whether to make an official complaint to the ITC.

But a spokesman for the programme’s producers said: “It was made very clear in the programme that this was a case of mistaken identity and the member of the public’s face was blurred at all times to protect that identity.”

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