A murderer protesting at having to spend 23 hours a day in his cell remained the roof of his prison tonight - and vowed to stay there for 40 nights.
Stuart Horner, 35, was jailed for life three years ago after shooting dead his uncle with a sawn-off shotgun.
He was recently moved to the Category A Strangeways prison in Manchester after trying to escape from a softer jail 30 miles away.
And he began his rooftop protest at 2pm on Sunday after complaining to family about conditions at the 147-year-old prison.
Sitting on a red-brick chimney pot he yelled out: “I’m doing this on behalf of everyone here. Sort the jail out.
“I’m sick of it. I want to change prison history.”
The Mirror's sister newspaper The Manchester Evening News reports that Horner continued to shouted to reporters and photographers throughout the night as a growing crowd members of the public gathered outside.
He also wrote a note on his T-shirt saying: "It's not 1990 tell the Gov we've all had enough. Sort the whole system"
Police and prison riot officers kept a watchful eye, as he clambered across roofs inside the Strangeways compound, causing damage along the way.
This evening, a 'protest party' began as members of the public - some with relatives serving sentences at Strangeways - gathered to support Horner's complaints about conditions inside.
Music was played from a van and fireworks were set off as other members of the crowd shone laser pens at the roof where Horner had been seen earlier.
Horner's mum Susan, 58, urged him to give himself up.
Her son was locked up for at least 27 years after shooting her brother Ian Taylor, 44, in the chest in a family feud.
She said: “He did say a few weeks ago there was going to be a riot because of how things were inside.
“I know he’s done wrong but surely he shouldn’t be locked up 23 hours a day.
“Doing this on his own will achieve nothing, but that’s what he’s like once he gets something in his head.
“He’s never going to get out the way he’s carrying on. He’s not helping himself.”
Stepdad Peter McLaren, 60, claimed other prisoners had been able to pass Horner food and cigarettes.
Horner, from Manchester, climbed on to the rooftop on Sunday wearing bright blue and yellow trousers, used inside the jail to indicate a prisoner is a potential escape risk.
He later stripped to his Manchester United underpants. As he smashed glass roof panels, he shouted to prison officers that he would stay up there “for 40 days and nights”.
It is understood he was moved from Category B HMP Garth in Leyland, Lancs, after he damaged his cell in an escape bid.
Resentment has been rising inside Strangeways over an alleged staffing crisis, resulting in inmates spending up to 23 hours a day in cells.
A spokesman for the Prison Officers Association said: “In the last five weeks, six staff and 23 prisoners have been assaulted and there have been 19 incidents of self-harm.
"This has to be addressed as a matter of urgency.”
Strangeways hit the headlines 25 years ago when prisoners rioted over conditions inside the Victorian jail.
Some inmates spent 25 days on the roof. One prisoner was killed during the riot, and a prison officer died from a heart attack. More than 140 prison officers and 47 prisoners were injured.
Bosses at the jail have ordered an inquiry into how Horner was able to climb up on the roof.
