{"id":699854,"date":"2026-07-19T11:25:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T11:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/699854\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T11:25:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T11:25:14","slug":"two-lowestoft-roads-closed-after-man-climbs-onto-roof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/699854\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Lowestoft roads closed after man climbs onto roof"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\" alt=\"Several police cars and an ambulance are near St John\u2019s Road in Lowestoft.\"\/>Several police cars and an ambulance were near St John\u2019s Road in Lowestoft (Image: Nelson Walker)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The incident began on Grosvenor Road in Lowestoft at around 6.45pm on Saturday and involved what police described as &#8220;a disturbance and physical altercation believed to involve a small group of people.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\" alt=\"Mill Road is cordoned off.\"\/>Mill Road in Lowestoft was cordoned off. (Image: Nelson Walker)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Officers were called and a male suspect was seen in St John\u2019s Road. He then climbed on to the roof of a property in that road.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\" alt=\"St John's Road and Mill Road in Lowestoft is closed\"\/>Mill Road and St John&#8217;s Road in Lowestoft was closed (Image: Nelson Walker)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Specialist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edp24.co.uk\/news\/26291254.manslaughter-probe-man-dies-lowestoft-care-home\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">police<\/a> teams were sent to the scene, along with fire and ambulance crews.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\" alt=\"Police and fire at the scene of Lowestoft incident\"\/>Specialist police teams along with fire and ambulance were at the scene (Image: Nelson Walker)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Road closures were in place on St John\u2019s Road and Mill Road but they have since reopened.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A cordon was also in place.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Three ambulances, two police cars and two fire engines were on Mill Road.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>A 40-year-old man was taken to hospital (Image: Nelson Walker)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A Norfolk Fire and Rescue Service crane was lifted onto a house on St John&#8217;s Road with two fire crews on board.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The two fire crew members got the man down from the roof.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A 40-year-old man was found injured near the scene and taken to hospital for treatment.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>A 13-year-old boy was also arrested (Image: Nelson Walker)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He was later arrested on suspicion of robbery and remains in custody at Great Yarmouth Police Investigation Centre (PIC).\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A 13-year-old boy was also arrested at 7.35pm on suspicion of common assault, obstructing a police officer, and assaulting an emergency worker.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\" alt=\"Three ambulances, two police cars and two fire engines are currently on Mill Road in Lowestoft\"\/>Three ambulances, two police cars and two fire engines were on Mill Road (Image: Nelson Walker)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He remains in custody for questioning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Several police cars and an ambulance were near St John\u2019s Road in Lowestoft (Image: Nelson Walker) The incident&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":699855,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-699854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=699854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/699855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}