A man who threatened to jump off a bridge at Exeter Central Station on Thursday evening has been arrested by police.
The man had reportedly been chased by a security guard from the Queens Street Co-op regarding an alleged shop lifting incident. He ran onto the bridge and threatened to jump causing the police to cordon off the area at 6:50pm on Thursday.
Trains at Exeter Central Station were cancelled for more than hour while a specialist negotiator was brought to the scene to speak to the man. It then took negotiators over an hour to talk the man down from the bridge.
Local businesses along Queen Street were largely unaffected as most were closed at the time of the incident. Ana Parnell of Platform 3, a popular sandwich café adjacent to Exeter Central Station, said that she shut up her shop before the incident and only heard about it from others after it had occurred.
Police were able to detain the man that evening. The man has since been arrested and is in custody. He awaits police questioning over the alleged incident of theft and a public order of offence.
The Devon and Cornwall Police spokesman was quoted as saying, “Thankfully we were able to bring this incident to a safe conclusion. No-one was hurt and an investigation is now underway.”
Olivia Luder, Site Manager
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