A 37-year-old man has been charged with assault following a tense day-long stand-off in Sydney's north at a high-rise building following the discovery of his girlfriend's body in the laneway below.
The woman, 34, was found in an alley off Brown Street, in the heart of Chatswood's shopping and business district, early on Monday by a passerby.
The man spent more than 12 hours perched on a perspex roof above a balcony on the 27th floor of the residential building before finally heading inside at 7pm.
He spent Tuesday morning being questioned at Chatswood Police Station before he was charged with assault occasioning actual bodily harm.
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He is due to face Hornsby Local Court later on Tuesday, a NSW Police spokesman told AAP.
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