A SIEGE at a Brookdale house ended after police stormed the building Sunday night and found the man had taken his own life.

For much of Sunday there had beeen a heavy police presence outside the Brookdale house after a man barricaded himself in the home of his former partner.

The tactical response group was called in early on Sunday afternoon to negotiate with the man and a 200 metre cordon established around the house in Chiltern Avenue.

Armadale Detectives had attempted to serve the man a court ordered VRO against his former partner earlier in the day.

Police requests for the man to leave the house went unanswered and he allegedly made threats to police and refused to let them in.

Officers reportedly cut power to the house and are believed to have stormed the house after negotiators were unsuccessful in persuading the man to leave the house.

A nearby resident said it was a usually quiet street but police had attended the same home several weeks ago.

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