Prisoners end rooftop protest

Prisoners started their protest on Friday

Inmates have ended their rooftop protest at a prison in Cambridgeshire.

Four prisoners climbed on to the roof of Littlehey Prison, near Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, at about 1540 BST on Friday.

They came down voluntarily at about 0300 BST on Saturday.

It was not clear what the protest was about but prison officials said they would be charged under their internal disciplinary system.

Police and ambulance alerted

Negotiators were on hand to help bring the stand-off to a peaceful end and local emergency services, including police and ambulance, were alerted to the situation.

Little disruption was said to have been caused to the normal running of the Category C prison during the protest.

Littlehey is about seven miles west of Huntingdon in the village of Perry and was opened in 1988 on the site of a former youth custody centre.

The purpose-built prison, which has a capacity of 648, has seven residential units and runs a sex offender treatment programme.