“We do gorilla marketing for the gym so one of us, that afternoon it was me, wears a gorilla suit and a green vest and we hand out grab bags with some information, a free guest pass and a banana. Little did Mr Ingham know, police had been called to reports of a fight at the Tesco supermarket in Whitefriars minutes before at 3.20pm on Thursday, February 18. Security guards were already chasing a man through the bus station and along the city wall.
The gym manager said: “We were there just chatting to some people when, all of a sudden, a police car tore up and a lady police officer jumped out. Obviously I had the gorilla suit on and had my hands full of bags as well.
“The policewoman ran up the bridge and there was this guy running over the bridge. The police officer tried to arrest him, at which point he tried to resist – he grabbed her and slammed her into the side of the bridge. Then the man started running towards us and the police officer shouted ‘assistance please!’”
Police say the female officer was pushed in the chest against the bridge railings, which are at least 40 feet above a busy dual-carriageway. The policewoman was not seriously hurt. Mr Ingham said: “When you are in a gorilla suit it is quite hard to see out of it to begin with. You actually have to hold someone’s hand as you walk along otherwise you fall over.
“If I had been able to see I would have rugby-tackled him, but I also had my hands full of bags. So as he ran towards me I jumped in front of him and gave him a really good kick in the legs to try and trip him up so someone else could jump on him. He stumbled and nearly fell over and tried to run off down the road, at which point he was apprehended by the rest of the police and taken away.”
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