STREET performer Paul Davis-Haswell shocked shoppers as he appeared to defy gravity.

The 39-year-old, pictured, appeared to be suspended in space in Cornmarket Street, Oxford, yesterday.

Mr Davis-Haswell, from South Wales, who has been a street performer for about 20 years, said: “I like seeing people do double-takes as they’re walking past as they expect me to be sitting on something. Children can’t work it out.”