Images circulating on social media on Saturday morning showed him standing on a ledge several meters up the historic structure, on the clock tower, barefoot and clutching a Palestinian flag.

After 6.5 hours of negotiations Monday, a man standing on a ledge on the top floor of the six-storey Bedford Regency Hotel agreed to come inside the building and was safely taken into custody.

Photographs have shown the man sat on the ledge with the flag and a keffiyeh, a headdress worn by men in the Middle East, wrapped around the decorative stonework on the tower. A large red stain ...