Convicted Murderer Stage 24 Hours Protest On Top Of Roof

Negotiators have been trying to convince Horner a convicted murderer to come down but he refuses, he has been staging a protest on top of Strange-ways prison for almost 24 hours.

Stuart Horner, 35, scaled an 18ft fence to get on the roof of the high-security men's jail in north Manchester on Sunday afternoon.

The prisoner was earlier wearing jogging pants and no shirt and then stripped down to just his Manchester United underwear.

He has been climbing poles and chimneys, smashing windows and banging a metal pole and walking on the edge of the roof.

He has also been shouting that he intends to stay up on the roof for 40 days and 40 nights to beat a previous record.

It is unclear exactly why Horner is protesting - but McCarthy said he has been yelling about conditions at the prison. He also shouted that he wanted to change prison history.

He has been communicating with his fellow inmates by shouting from the chimney top, McCarthy said.

He has food, water, cigarettes and blankets with him.

All the roads around the prison are sealed off.

In 2011, Horner shot his uncle dead with a sawn-off shotgun after a long-running family feud.

He was sentenced to a minimum 27 years in prison.

Greater Manchester Police confirmed they received a call from prison staff asking for assistance over the "one person protest" at 3.35pm on Sunday.

A spokesman for the force said: "The man is conducting a lone protest and has managed to get onto the top of the main building and cause damage to the roof.