Police Charge Portsmouth Man over Virgin Media Shop Siege
A Portsmouth man has been charged by Police with assault and threatening people with a knife after Police sealed off the Virgin Media shop in the centre of Portsmouth on Saturday. In a statement released this evening Hampshire police confirmed a 20-year-old man from Portsmouth is being held in custody tonight, following a three-hour armed stand-off inside the Virgin Media store yesterday. He will appear at Portsmouth Magistrates’ Court tomorrow morning. He has been charged with threatening a number of people with a knife in a public place, affray and assaulting a man in his 40s by throwing an alcohol gel bottle. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKcH7VGxgXk A three-hour stand-off took place at about midday when a man burst into the shop. Dozens of armed police officers, with riot shields and police dogs, surrounded the building, at the northern end of the busy shopping precinct. https://www.
