​Man in court after six-hour stand-off with heavily armed PSNI officers

​Tomas Tisko, 32, of no fixed abode, hobbled into the dock of Belfast Magistrates' Court dressed in a grey sweatshirt and jogging bottoms to face two sets of charges.

He was charged that on Wednesday he possessed an offensive weapon namely roof tiles, masonry and chimney pots.

Tisko was accused of assaulting a PSNI constable, damaging a blue Volkswagen Golf car owned by a press photographer and using disorderly behaviour in a public place, namely Canterbury Street, Belfast.

On a second set of offences, he is charged with falsely imprisoning a female in March this year and being abusive to her.

On July 14, Tisko was further charged with criminal damage, attempted criminal damage, assault occasioning actual bodily harm, a threat to kill, possessing an offensive weapon, namely a mascara brush, with intent to commit grievous bodily harm and unlawful assault.

A PSNI constable told District Judge Laura Ievers that she could connect Tisko to all the charges he faced and said bail was objected to.

She said that police were called to an address in Belfast this week where the injured party said she had been assaulted over a period of days by her partner Tisko.

She alleged that in March 2025 she and the defendant had a verbal altercation and he prevented her from leaving her home.

During that incident she alleged that a liquid had been thrown in her face that Tisko said was acid. She later discovered it was vodka.

The police officer said the injured party disclosed that when she arrived home on July 14, she found Tisko in her house and he was heavily intoxicated.

The court heard a verbal argument started between them and it is alleged Tisko put the female to the ground holding a large mirror over her, giving her the impression he was going to hit her with it.

The injured party also claimed Tisko took her mascara brush and “gouged her left eye causing a black eye”, and that when the row moved to the bathroom she claimed the defendant grabbed her and pushed her against the wall, causing bruising to her arm.

The injured party told police that she tried on a number of occasions to leave the house but he prevented her.

It is also claimed he punched the injured party’s sister later in the day before Tisko eventually left.

He turned up at her door the next day and allegedly threatened to kill the woman in a series of phone calls.

At 10.30pm police were called to Canterbury Street, and a male told police that he had been assaulted after being pinned down and punched to the head and face.

Tisko was identified hiding on the roof by a police drone, and began throwing tiles and chimney pots at cars and police.

He eventually came down off the roof after a six-hour stand-off.

Bail was refused and Tisko was remanded in custody until August 14.