Man arrested after scaling palace fence

A MAN has been arrested after climbing over a security fence at Buckingham Palace, Queen Elizabeth’s residence in London, early yesterday, police said.

The man, 22, who had been drinking, did not get into the palace and was unarmed, the Metropolitan Police said.

The queen and other royals are not at the palace. She is at Balmoral, her residence in Scotland.

“At about 04.15 on Tuesday, August 9, officers arrested a 22-year-old from Croydon on suspicion of trespassing on a protected site . . . after he had climbed over a security fence at Buckingham Palace,” the police said.

“The man is in custody at a central London police station.”

In May, a man with a conviction for murder climbed the palace perimeter wall and entered the grounds.