[joglynne]

It may have been inconvenient for some people but how can we decide what would have been a better way to deal with the man. Doesn't the fact that the police took 29 hours to resolve the situation not make you think that, just maybe, we don't know the full facts.

They can't have been unaware of the disruption the road closures were having and I doubt if they would have chosen to wait that long unless they thought using something such as a taser was not the best way to handle someone who doesn't appear to have been violent and may have serious mental problems.