RESIDENT CAUSES PANIC AND MORNING ROAD CLOSURE

By James Fletcher

At 07:30 am on Monday the 8th of July. All the emergency services were called to Kenworthy Road in Stocksbridge to attend an incident which involved a 48-yearold lady who threatened to jump from a window of her two-storey house.

e lady was distressed as she sat on the edge of her window ledge, and she hurled abuse at o cers and other bystanders in attendance all the while she brandished what appeared to be a metal rod to hit her own windows with, while she drank from a bottle in her other hand.

Bystanders heard her shout that her three children had been taken away from her and that they and herself have been the victims of sexual assault in the past that she had reported this to the police and that they did nothing to help her.

Flooded with tears the 48-year-old had become more irritable, as she continued to bash her own windows with the metal rod. Police extended their perimeter so as not to escalate the situation; the more people gathered, the more distressed she became. is tactic by the police seemed to help calm her down a little. She continued to hurl abuse and refused to come down from the window as she bellowed, ‘She would be there all day if she had to.’

As the incident went into the second hour, the lady started to talk to the police and demanded a cigarette but refused to let go of the metal rod or come down from the window. But then at around 10 am as it looked as though she was about to jump leaning further out of her window, police dragged her to safety and then led her away into a police car.