Man climbed onto Dundee roof and refused to get down

A man who had been drinking climbed on to the roof of a five-storey building and refused to get down.

Darren Petrie, 29, of Beauly Avenue, had sentence deferred at Dundee Sheriff Court after he admitted that on March 5, at Dundee Cyrenians, Soapwork Lane, he conducted himself in a disorderly manner.

He admitted climbing on to the roof of a five-storey building while under the influence of alcohol, repeatedly refusing to get down and walking back and forth to the danger of injury to himself, and causing police, ambulance and fire crews to be deployed and the surrounding roads to be closed, while also placing people in a state of fear and alarm and committing a breach of the peace.

Sentence was deferred until July 17 for reports.