Stand Off At Westcliff
07 October 2011 by Hamst
Police and fire crews were in attendance at an incident at Canterbury Close, Westcliff, and this afternoon.
According to locals the incident started at about 13:30hrs when the police arrived to arrest a local youth, named as Josh Jackson, on prison recall. However before he could be arrested he had scrambled onto the house roofs on Canterbury Close. A stand off ensued, more police officers were called for as well as officials from Social Housing Landlord NL Homes and with the fire bridge to gain access to the roof lin. The wanted youth refused to come down and a game of cat & mouse was played out with him running along the roofs pursued by the police on the ground on both sides of the close.
The police helicopter was called to observe from the sky and after 3 hours with the youth still refusing to come down the police made a tactical withdrawal.
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