Man detained after bridge harbour call

EMERGENCY services spent nearly four hours at a Tayside harbour after concerns were raised about a man on a bridge.

Police, coastguard and lifeboat crews raced to the scene at Montrose Harbour in the early hours of Saturday.

The man was eventually led to safety by officers and taken into custody.

A spokesman for Montrose lifeboat said crew members were alerted to the incident just before 1.30am on Saturday.

He said: “We received a call from police saying they were concerned for the safety of a man on the bridge.

“We immediately launched the inshore lifeboat which is very close to the scene.

“We were on standby for almost four hours under the bridge while police on the bridge talked to the man.

“Police were eventually able to lead the man to safety.

“He appeared to be unharmed and was taken to a waiting police car.”

A spokesman for HM Coastguard confirmed its officers had also been called to attend.

He said: “We received a call from police alerting us to a man in distress on the harbour bridge at Montrose.

“We contacted the local lifeboat crew and the inshore lifeboat was launched.

“Police also attended at the scene and were able to talk the man to safety after around four hours.”

A spokesman for Montrose Port Authority confirmed it had been made aware of the incident.

The spokesman said: “Our logs show that at 2.20am the Montrose lifeboat alerted us to the fact that they were on standby in the harbour.”

Meanwhile, a lifeboat was called out after a yacht carrying two people got into difficulty off the Angus cost on Saturday afternoon.

The 33ft vessel was 50 miles east of Montrose when it suffered a power outage and engine failure.

The crew managed to radio the coastguard for help at 1.35pm before it lost all communications.

The RNLI lifeboat reached the vehicle at around 4pm and towed it i nto Montrose harbour, where it was expected to arrive at around 9pm.

A tanker, which was passing the area, also waited on standby until the RNLI crew arrived.

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