Police save suicidal girl by tying her wrists with belts

THIS is the dramatic moment when police rescued a woman who was standing on a ledge 60 feet above live railway tracks and threatening to jump, it emerged yesterday.

The CCTV pictures show how officers managed to hold on to the 20-year-old woman for 50 minutes after lassoing their trouser belts around her wrists.

Police were called to reports of a woman standing on a three-inch ledge over railway lines close to the Millard Terrace Shopping Mall in Dagenham, east London, on Sunday.