A man who held his ex-partner and children hostage stood on their roof and flung tiles at police officers while demanding cigarettes and McDonald's.
Paul Rutledge, of Terrace Road, Widnes, appeared at Liverpool Crown Court this afternoon, Tuesday, July 4 to be sentenced for a number of charges that related to an "extraordinary" five-hour standoff with police. On March 21, Rutledge, 32, tried to enter the house of his ex-partner Sarah McPartland who lived on Frederick Street, Widnes.
Rutledge, who was under a restraining order stopping him contacting his ex-partner, arrived at her house in the early hours of the morning and started banging on her door. He repeatedly shouted her name - and only stopped when she held up her phone to the downstairs' window showing him she was calling the police.
