Police responding to a 999 call made at about 11pm on Monday, January 2nd, tried to arrest a man. However he evaded them and ended up on the roof of a building in the Copse Cross street area of Ross.

Police Officers called in the helicopter for support as the weather conditions were so poor, and it was very slippery underfoot.

At 20 minutes past midnight on January 3rd a 30-year-old man was arrested for bail-related offences and appeared at Hereford Magistrates Court on Tuesday morning, January 3rd.

Christopher Griffiths was granted conditional bail and will be sent back to Crown Court at a date and time to be arranged by the Court.

Several Ross Gazette readers contacted the paper or put questions about the incident on the Gazette's facebook page. One person said that the Police Helicopter was hovering over the town between 12.10am – 12.20am on Tuesday, January 3rd.

He saw the search light come on and said that the search lights were 'sweeping up Old Gloucester Road and the Copse Cross Street area for some considerable time.