Police were called to reports that a man had jumped from a second storey flat window in Ancoats in Manchester 

Police were called to reports that a man had jumped from a second storey flat window in Ancoats in Manchester 

A man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a woman’s body was found inside a flat on a busy city centre street.

Police were called to reports that a man had jumped from a second storey flat window in the Ancoats area of Manchester. 

A short time later they received further reports that a number of people nearby had been assaulted. Officers then gained entry to a flat and found the body of a woman inside. 

A 37-year-old man was arrested nearby on suspicion of murder and he remains in custody for questioning. 

Police were initially called to the scene after a man covered in blood jumped 40ft from a window on to a car and allegedly attacked the family inside it before running down the road assaulting pedestrians.

 Superintendent Chris Hill, of GMP’s City of Manchester team, said: ‘We are currently working to establish the exact circumstances surrounding what has happened this morning and the woman’s death.

‘Her death is currently being treated as suspicious and we have a team of officers working at the scene. 

‘We are in the very early stages of our investigation however I would urge anyone with any information to please get in touch.’  

A man covered in blood jumped from a window on to this car (pictured) and attacked the family inside it before running down the road in Manchester assaulting pedestrians

Ben Sheridan (pictured) was travelling inside the car with his mother Lynn and dad, Peter, when they were attacked. The family had just parked up and were preparing to go to work when they felt a huge bang on the roof and realised a man had fallen from the window above

Ben Sheridan (pictured) was travelling inside the car with his mother Lynn and dad, Peter, when they were attacked. The family had just parked up and were preparing to go to work when they felt a huge bang on the roof and realised a man had fallen from the window above

Ben Sheridan (pictured) was travelling inside the car with his mother Lynn and dad, Peter, when they were attacked. The family had just parked up and were preparing to go to work when they felt a huge bang on the roof and realised a man had fallen from the window above

Police were called to reports of a man behaving ‘erratically’ on a street in Manchester City Centre at 7.40am this morning and arrested a suspect. Bloodstains remain visible on the windows of an apartment block at the scene. 

Ben Sheridan, 28, was travelling inside the car with his mother Lynn and dad, Peter, when they were allegedly attacked by the man, who plunged 40ft from a second-floor apartment. 

The family from Radcliffe, Greater Manchester, had just parked up and were preparing to go to work when they felt a huge bang on the roof and realised a man had fallen from the window above.

They initially jumped out to help him but they say the man started to attack them.

Ben, 28, a web developer, said: ‘A guy jumped out of the window onto our car, tried to steal it and then he’s run off. He attacked a few other people and then smashed a few other cars up as well.

‘Our car crumpled and we just tried to help him to see if he was all right.

Bloodstains are visible on the second-storey window

Bloodstains are visible on the second-storey window

Bloodstains remain visible on the windows of an apartment block at the scene

‘I tried to call the police and was a bit panicky and then he just tried to jump in the car from the passenger side as we were getting ready to leave.

‘He hit my mum a couple of times. She is being checked by paramedics but is fine.

‘He was off his head on something, covered in blood and those windows are as well. He kept shouting a name like Tim but I was fumbling trying to call the police.’ 

His father added: ‘It’s the first time I’ve ever had to fight. My wife has a huge lump on her face. We are all very shaken up.’

The suspect is then said to have run down the street, reportedly assaulting other people before eventually being 'pinned to the ground by officers covered in blood'

The suspect is then said to have run down the street, reportedly assaulting other people before eventually being 'pinned to the ground by officers covered in blood'

The suspect is then said to have run down the street, reportedly assaulting other people before eventually being ‘pinned to the ground by officers covered in blood’

Mr Sheridan said the man then ran down the street, smashing the window of another car with his hands and ‘assaulting people’.

Witnesses said the man jumped from a window on to a car before attacking the family who were in it and on their way to work.

The suspect is then said to have run down the street, reportedly assaulting other people before eventually being ‘pinned to the ground by officers covered in blood’.

When police arrived, they found a number of people had been assaulted.  

Officers are currently interviewing witnesses in the Burton Arms, opposite the scene.

There is a police cordon in place and part of the street in Ancoats – the road down which the man is understood to have run after falling on the car roof – is closed.

The badly damaged black Hyundai is still at the scene and a white car seen further down the street is also understood to have been damaged.

Images shared on social media show blood on apartment windows while witnesses said five police vans and two ambulances were at the scene.

The badly damaged black Hyundai is still at the scene and this white car seen further down the street was also damaged

The badly damaged black Hyundai is still at the scene and this white car seen further down the street was also damaged

The badly damaged black Hyundai is still at the scene and this white car seen further down the street was also damaged

A spokeswoman for North West Ambulance Service said it was called to the scene and one person has been taken to Salford Royal Hospital.

There are no details of any injuries at this stage. 

Marie Cusack, 56, landlady of Burton Arms in Manchester’s Northern Quarter, said: ‘Things like this happen in Emmerdale Farm but you don’t expect it here.

‘Many different people stay in those apartments. In the week workers from the building site stay there and then at the weekends you get hen and stag dos.’

A North West Ambulance Service spokesman said: We have attended and taken a patient to Salford Royal.’ 

A jacket and a fire extinguisher are next to the car under the window from which the man jumped

A jacket and a fire extinguisher are next to the car under the window from which the man jumped

A jacket and a fire extinguisher are next to the car under the window from which the man jumped

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