Rooftop drama as man threatens to jump
Published: 09:44, 14 September 2011
Updated: 11:46, 06 December 2019
The man unfurled a banner from the top of the Boots store (picture by @SimonMoores on Twitter)
A man who scaled a Margate shop to mount a roof-top protest has been talked down.
He was spotted on top of Boots in the High Street at around 9.15am, shouting and holding up a sheet.
He is believed to have been protesting about a domestic issue.
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Police negotiators spent more than three hours at the scene before the stand off came to a peaceful conclusion.
Several parts of Margate town centre, including the High Street, Cecil Square, Elephant Hill and Hawley Street, were closed off after the man threatened to jump.
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