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Strangeways Prisoner Stuart Horner Gives Up Three-Day Rooftop Protest After Securing Pizza And Coke

It Didn't Take Much Bribing To Get The Strangeways Prison Protester Down
Aubrey Allegretti
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A prisoner who scaled the roof of Strangeways jail has ended his three-day protest after prison wardens bribed him down with the offer of a 12 inch pizza and a can of coke.

Murderer Stuart Horner, 35, who was locked up in 2012 for killing his uncle, came down from the roof of HMP Manchester during the early hours of Wednesday morning.

He had originally clambered up an 18ft wall of the prison's secure exercise yard before stripping to his underpants.

The man caused thousands of pounds of damage by pulling up metal roof trusses and using them to smash a series of large skylight windows and attack CCTV security cameras.

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Horner passed the time by smashing windows

Prison officials tried to use a fire brigade cherrypicker crane to reach him to try talking him down after the protest began at around 3.30pm on Sunday.

But the Manchester Evening News reported that at around 3am, as he made his way down from the roof in a crane, Horner said: "I've proved my point. I've got a 12 inch pizza and a can of coke.

He told a reporter: "I've done what I wanted. I've had a mad one."

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Stuart Horner, 27, from Wythenshawe, Manchester, protests on the roof of HMP Manchester, over prison conditions. (credit:Peter Byrne/PA Wire)
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Stuart Horner, 27, from Wythenshawe, Manchester, protests on the roof of HMP Manchester, over prison conditions. (credit:Peter Byrne/PA Wire)
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Stuart Horner, 27, from Wythenshawe, Manchester, protests on the roof of HMP Manchester, over prison conditions. (credit:Peter Byrne/PA Wire)
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Stuart Horner, 27, from Wythenshawe, Manchester, protests on the roof of HMP Manchester, over prison conditions. (credit:Peter Byrne/PA Wire)
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Stuart Horner, 27, from Wythenshawe, Manchester, protests on the roof of HMP Manchester, over prison conditions. (credit:Peter Byrne/PA Wire)
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Stuart Horner, 27, from Wythenshawe, Manchester, protests on the roof of HMP Manchester, over prison conditions. (credit:Peter Byrne/PA Wire)
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Stuart Horner, 27, from Wythenshawe, Manchester, protests on the roof of HMP Manchester, over prison conditions. (credit:Peter Byrne/PA Wire)
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Stuart Horner, 27, from Wythenshawe, Manchester, protests on the roof of HMP Manchester, over prison conditions. (credit:Peter Byrne/PA Wire)
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Police monitor the situation as Stuart Horner, 27, from Wythenshawe, Manchester, protests on the roof of HMP Manchester, over prison conditions. (credit:Peter Byrne/PA Wire)
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Stuart Horner, 27, from Wythenshawe, Manchester, protests on the roof of HMP Manchester, over prison conditions. (credit:Peter Byrne/PA Wire)
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Stuart Horner, 27, from Wythenshawe, Manchester, protests on the roof of HMP Manchester, over prison conditions. (credit:Peter Byrne/PA Wire)
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Stuart Horner, a convicted murderer and inmate of HM Prison Manchester, a category 'A' prison, more commonly known as Strangeways, stages a one-man protest on the prison roof in Manchester, northern England on September 14, 2015, after escaping from his cell on September 13. Horner was jailed for life in 2012 for the murder of his uncle Ian Taylor. AFP PHOTO / OLI SCARFF (Photo credit should read OLI SCARFF/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:OLI SCARFF via Getty Images)
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Stuart Horner, a convicted murderer and inmate of HM Prison Manchester, a category 'A' prison, more commonly known as Strangeways, stages a one-man protest on the prison roof in Manchester, northern England on September 14, 2015, after escaping from his cell on September 13. Horner was jailed for life in 2012 for the murder of his uncle Ian Taylor. AFP PHOTO / OLI SCARFF (Photo credit should read OLI SCARFF/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:OLI SCARFF via Getty Images)
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Stuart Horner, a convicted murderer and inmate of HM Prison Manchester, a category 'A' prison, more commonly known as Strangeways, stages a one-man protest on the prison roof in Manchester, northern England on September 14, 2015, after escaping from his cell on September 13. Horner was jailed for life in 2012 for the murder of his uncle Ian Taylor. AFP PHOTO / OLI SCARFF (Photo credit should read OLI SCARFF/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:OLI SCARFF via Getty Images)
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Stuart Horner, a convicted murderer and inmate of HM Prison Manchester, a category 'A' prison, more commonly known as Strangeways, stages a one-man protest on the prison roof in Manchester, northern England on September 14, 2015, after escaping from his cell on September 13. Horner was jailed for life in 2012 for the murder of his uncle Ian Taylor. (credit:OLI SCARFF via Getty Images)
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Stuart Horner, a convicted murderer and inmate of HM Prison Manchester, a category 'A' prison, more commonly known as Strangeways, attacks a CCTV camera as he stages a one-man protest on the prison roof in Manchester, northern England on September 14, 2015, after escaping from his cell on September 13. Horner was jailed for life in 2012 for the murder of his uncle Ian Taylor. (credit:OLI SCARFF via Getty Images)
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Stuart Horner, a convicted murderer and inmate of HM Prison Manchester, a category 'A' prison, more commonly known as Strangeways, stages a one-man protest on the prison roof in Manchester, northern England on September 14, 2015, after escaping from his cell on September 13. Horner was jailed for life in 2012 for the murder of his uncle Ian Taylor. (credit:OLI SCARFF via Getty Images)
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Stuart Horner, a convicted murderer and inmate of HM Prison Manchester, a category 'A' prison, more commonly known as Strangeways, folds a blanket stages a one-man protest on the prison roof in Manchester, northern England on September 14, 2015, after escaping from his cell on September 13. Horner was jailed for life in 2012 for the murder of his uncle Ian Taylor. (credit:OLI SCARFF via Getty Images)
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Stuart Horner, a convicted murderer and inmate of HM Prison Manchester, a category 'A' prison, more commonly known as Strangeways, stages a one-man protest on the prison roof in Manchester, northern England on September 14, 2015, after escaping from his cell on September 13. Horner was jailed for life in 2012 for the murder of his uncle Ian Taylor. (credit:AFP via Getty Images)
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Stuart Horner, a convicted murderer and inmate of HM Prison Manchester, a category 'A' prison, more commonly known as Strangeways, stages a one-man protest on the prison roof in Manchester, northern England on September 14, 2015, after escaping from his cell on September 13. Horner was jailed for life in 2012 for the murder of his uncle Ian Taylor. (credit:OLI SCARFF via Getty Images)
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Stuart Horner, a convicted murderer and inmate of HM Prison Manchester, a category 'A' prison, more commonly known as Strangeways, stages a one-man protest on the prison roof in Manchester, northern England on September 14, 2015, after escaping from his cell on September 13. Horner was jailed for life in 2012 for the murder of his uncle Ian Taylor. (credit:OLI SCARFF via Getty Images)

Horner is set to face punishment for breaking prison rules and probable prosecution for criminal damage.

Over the three days, members of the public congregated outside the prison and held "party protests" in the middle of the street.

He was given a life sentence, with a minimum of 27 years before parole, for blasting his uncle Ian Taylor, 44, with a shotgun in June 2011 after a family feud.

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