Police are questioning a man who was arrested after coming down from a high-rise awning, ending a 12-hour stand off that began when the body of a woman was found in an alleyway nearby.
The woman's body was discovered near the Chatswood apartment in Sydney's north yesterday.
Police spent yesterday negotiating, using a Korean interpreter to communicate with the man who appeared distressed and at times dangled his legs from the awning above a 27th-floor balcony of the building.
The body of the woman, believed to be in her 30s, was found by a pedestrian in the alley off Brown Street near the Chatswood train station about 6:30am.
Police are yet to reveal her cause of death but are treating the incident as one of domestic violence, and believe the couple were in a relationship for a number of weeks.
The man, also in his 30s, climbed back into the apartment around 7:30pm and was arrested.
"We've successfully negotiated with that man to come back from the awning where he was precariously sitting for so many hours," Superintendent Philip Flogel said.
Whether the woman fell from the apartment building or was pushed is still being investigated, police said, with the extent of her injuries to be analysed.
It is not yet known whether they were living together at the unit.
The man was taken to Royal North Shore Hospital as a precaution but has since been released and is being questioned at Chatswood police station.
Police said the man was known to them.
