Police coax girl, 14, down from bridge

POLICE managed to coax down a teenage girl from a bridge outside one of Yorkshire’s leading schools after she had threatened to jump.

By The Newsroom

Published 1st Feb 2013, 05:00 BST

Officers from North Yorkshire Police were called to the pedestrian footbridge outside St Peter’s School, York, after the 14-year-old girl had been spotted sitting on the wrong side of the railings by a member of the public at about 9am yesterday.

Clifton Road, which runs into Bootham and is one of the main routes into the city centre, was closed to traffic while officers persuaded the girl, who is understood not to be a pupil at the school, to come down.

A spokesman for North Yorkshire Police confirmed to the Yorkshire Post that the teenager had been led to safety after “a short period of negotiation”.

The girl was then taken into police custody for her own protection and was being interviewed by officers yesterday afternoon. Clifton Road was reopened to traffic just before 9.30am.