Police, fire and ambulance called out to Dundee man’s rooftop standoff

A Dundee man under the influence of alcohol 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 by climbing on to the roof of a five-storey building while under the influence of alcohol, repeatedly refused to get down and walked back and forth to the danger of himself.

Police, ambulance and fire crews were all deployed to the incident on Sunday March 5. They closed off surrounding roads.

Petrie further admitted placing people there in a state of fear and alarm and committing a breach of the peace.

Sentence was deferred until June 19.