Man arrested over Waterlow murders

Double murder suspect Antony Waterlow has been arrested in Sydney bushland following
a dramatic but brief armed standoff with police.

The 42-year-old had been the subject of a massive police manhunt after the stabbing
deaths of his father and sister on November 9.
The search ended with a siege in bushland near Colo Heights in Sydney's northwest on
Friday afternoon, when the fugitive threatened to harm himself with a knife as
police approached.
"After negotiations with local police the male placed the weapon down and
surrendered to police," head of the investigation Acting Superintendent Dennis Bray
told reporters.
Mr Waterlow disappeared on the day his art curator father Nick Waterlow, 68, and
36-year-old sister Chloe Waterlow were found stabbed to death inside her Randwick
home.
He was last seen leaving the property on the day of the killings.
For almost three weeks Mr Waterlow remained at large, with fears he may harm himself
and speculation he was sleeping rough in bushland.
In the end, it was a tip-off by a member of the public which helped end the manhunt,
police said.
Someone spotted Mr Waterlow walking along a Colo Heights street, and went into a
service station to confer with the owner.
The pair agreed it looked like Mr Waterlow and called police.
After a brief foot chase, he stopped, showed police a knife and threatened to use it
on himself.
"A 42-year-old man has been arrested following a police operation at Colo Heights,"
police said in a statement.
"He will be taken to Windsor Police station to assist with inquiries into a homicide."
Police would not confirm the man is Mr Waterlow but it is understood to be him.
No charges have been laid as yet.
A day after the murders, police announced Mr Waterlow was wanted for questioning and
it emerged that he was a long-term sufferer of schizophrenia.
A major breakthrough came on Wednesday when police released CCTV footage confirming
he was still alive.
The images, which showed him at an ATM in Randwick and at another inside the
Parramatta Road hotel at Leichhardt, were widely circulated in the media.
Hundreds of mourners turned out last Friday to farewell Nick Waterlow at a funeral
at Sydney's St Marys cathedral.
Speaking during the service, Nick Waterlow's partner Juliet Darling said he had
loved all his children, including Antony "until the very end".
Mother-of-three Ms Waterlow was farewelled at a service on Thursday last week.