Police talk man out of jumping from flat window above North London bookies during terror raids
As cops surrounded the property one man was said to have flung open the window and attempted to climb out
COPS had to talk a man out of leaping from a first-floor flat they raided in Barking, North East London, yesterday.
As marksmen surrounded the home above a Paddy Power bookies, one of the inhabitants flung open the window and climbed out.
A witness — who declined to be named — said: “A lot of police snipers were outside pointing their guns up at the flat.
“There was a guy trying to jump off the roof, he was panicking. There were plain-clothes officers trying to tell him not to jump.
“In the end he went back into the flat.”
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Among those arrested above the shop was a women in pink hotpants and a man in a blue jumper and three-quarter length trousers.
Neighbours said they did not recognise those being led out in handcuffs.
But a shop worker told The Sun that the people had been living above the Paddy Power for at least six months.
He added: “I’ve seen three different cultures coming out of that flat. They have been very quiet.”
Another local said: “I saw some people being led from the flat but I did not know them. Nobody really talks to each other.”