The man hurls a slate off a roof on Rutland Street in Grimsby (Picture: Grimsby Telegraph/MEN Media)

A suspect caught up in police negotiations was coaxed from a six-hour rooftop standoff with the promise of a McDonald’s.

Officers spent hours negotiating with the man after he took to a rooftop in Rutland Street in Grimsby.

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He was wanted by Humberside Police in connection with a number of offences including burglary and theft.

Shortly before Tuesday’s lengthy standoff ended, the man on the roof had asked for a McDonald’s.


One witness said: ‘The police seemed to know exactly what they were doing. There was a cordon but rather than risk anything they just waited it out.

A man climbs down from a rooftop after a six hour standoff with police on Rutland Street in Grimsby (Picture: Grimsby Telegraph/MEN Media)

A man disappears through a damaged roof during a six hour standoff with police on Rutland Street in Grimsby (Picture: Grimsby Telegraph/MEN Media)

‘I heard the negotiator speaking to him about a McDonald’s. He said he wanted one and they told him he could have one if he came down.



‘They had already refused to let someone through with a Burger King. It wasn’t long after that, that he climbed down.’

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It is believed the incident in Rutland Street is connected to a similar police operation in Elliston Street on July 21, when a man evaded arrest after clambering onto a roof as an officer attempted to gain entry by kicking at the front door.

Police even let family members pass him tobacco and a tin of food after he climbed down to a lower level.

Shortly after the McDonald’s exchange, the man was seen scaling the house and landing in a garden where he was arrested by waiting police and taken to a police van.

A man is led to a police van after the standoff on Rutland Street in Grimsby (Picture: Grimsby Telegraph/MEN Media)

One woman was seen pursuing the van on foot as it drove off shouting: ‘I love you, I love you.’

Police confirmed that a 20-year-old man from Cleethorpes was arrested on suspicion of affray and possession of an offensive weapon and remains in custody thought they didn’t confirm if the they bought the suspect a burger.

A spokeswoman for Humberside Police said specialist negotiators had been involved in the standoff ‘in an effort to bring him down safely.’

She said the police’s priority was to ‘bring the incident to a safe conclusion as quickly as possible.’