Shop windows were smashed in the early hours of the morning

Police have provided an update after a man was arrested after two shop windows were smashed in Park Gate.

Officers attended Bridge Road on October 7 in the early hours of the morning to find a 26-year-old man on the roof of the Sainsbury’s Local on Bridge Road. They were responding to reports of a man attempting to smash the window of the M&S at the BP garage and the Co-Op on the same road.

A man was arrested in Park Gate in the early hours of Wednesday, October 7. | Contributed

placeholder image — A man was arrested in Park Gate in the early hours of Wednesday, October 7. | Contributed

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When he came down from the roof, the man, of no fixed abode, was arrested on suspicion of criminal damage and attempted criminal damage. The incident saw a number of police vehicles respond with an eye witness telling The News that it took several officers to apprehend the man as he resisted arrest.

Hampshire & Isle of Wight Constabulary have now confirmed that the man has been detained under Section 136 of the Mental Health Act.