An efit of a burglary suspect with an extremely wide mouth has gone viral after Warwickshire police posted the image on social media.

Police want to speak to the man in connection with a distraction burglary in Stratford-upon-Avon on 5 February.

Two men claiming to be from Orbit Housing tricked their way into a woman’s flat and one of them distracted the woman while the other searched the property and stole a quantity of cash. The woman told the men to leave when she realised they were stealing money.

We've issued an efit for of a suspect in a distraction burglary in Stratford in February. If you have any information please contact us. https://t.co/NipFniL1ed pic.twitter.com/oGiYfxIi2e — Warwickshire Police (@warkspolice) April 3, 2018

The efit has been shared hundreds of times on social media, and Twitter users have posted jokes in response to the image. “Please publish his mugshot when you catch him! We need to see it,” one user said.

Another said: “As a child when we had visitors I used to put in my mother’s old false teeth and looked pretty much like this photofit. I was a horrible kid!”

After the post went viral, Warwickshire police said: “We can confirm that this is real and that we anticipated the attention! But jokes aside, it was created from a description provided and it’s serious as a woman was victim of a horrible crime. Hopefully the attention will mean we identify the offender/bring him to justice quicker.”

Officers asked for anyone with information to call 101 quoting incident 220 of 5 February 2018. Alternatively, information can be provided anonymously to Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111 or via crimestoppers-uk.org.