A fathers’ rights campaigner has been arrested after he ended his protest on top of a Newcastle city bridge.
Real Fathers For Justice demonstrator Simon Anderton scaled the Tyne Bridge in the early hours of Sunday, where he unfurled a banner reading: “Happy Father’s Day” and tied a dummy with its head in a noose - intended to represent a father - to the arch of the bridge.
The 44-year-old came down from the top parapet of the steel structure after members of the campaign group asked him to end the protest out of fears for his health.
A Northumbria Police spokesman said: “The protester made his own way from the bridge to the public footpath and has been arrested by officers from Newcastle Area Command for public order offences.
“At this time the arrested person is in police custody.”
Earlier, Mike Kelly, a spokesman for Real Fathers For Justice, expressed concern that Mr Anderton - who is a local member - had no food or medication and only a small bottle of water.
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