POLICE were today trying to persuade a man to climb down from the roof of a house near Goole after freeing a woman allegedly being held against her will.
The 41-year-old man barricaded himself in the house between Airmyn and Rawcliffe early today, and could be seen flitting between the roof and the loft.
Despite repeated requests from police negotiators to come down, he was still there some eight hours later.
About 15 officers from Goole Police Station descended on The Tanglewoods, a detached house in its own grounds in Bridge Close, just outside Airmyn, last night.
They were alerted by a report from a nurse who had visited the property that a man in the house was in an agitated and distressed state - and that a woman, also 41, was apparently being held against her will at the address.
A Humberside police spokesman said police freed the woman at about 8.45pm, but the man fled the scene. He later returned to the house, which is owned by his parents, and barricaded himself in, said Inspector Steve Page.
He said the man was not armed and was only a danger to himself, and added that the woman, believed to be from East Hull, was unharmed.
PICTURE: The man involved in a stand-off with police sits on a house roof in Airmyn, near Goole
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