A riot at the controversial Banksia Hill Detention Centre has ended after inmates held police at bay for more than 12 hours, with confronting vision showing armed officers on the roof moving in to quell the disturbance.
Aerial vision recorded from a helicopter showed a line of riot squad officers, armed with shields and some form of weapon, walking across the roof of one of the blocks, with a small number of detainees lying on their stomachs with their hands behind their backs.
One by one the detainees – who were earlier standing on the roof, hurling projectiles and refusing to surrender – crawled across to the officers, who then escorted each of them off the building and led them away.
