A person has appeared in courtroom accused of climbing up the tower of Massive Ben.
Daniel Day, 29, of Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court docket on Monday charged with deliberately or recklessly inflicting a public nuisance and trespassing on a protected web site.
Day spoke to substantiate his identification and was remanded into custody till later this month.
No pleas have been entered.
The Metropolitan Police have been known as to stories of a person climbing up Elizabeth Tower at 7.24am on Saturday.
The person was carrying a Palestinian flag and remained barefoot on a ledge for greater than 16 hours earlier than being lifted to the bottom in a cherry picker simply after midnight.
In a video posted on Instagram on Saturday night, the person advised negotiators from the ledge he was sitting on that he would come down “on his own terms”.
Within the footage, negotiators on an aerial ladder platform seem to lift considerations about an harm to his foot, saying there’s “quite a lot of blood” and that his garments weren’t heat sufficient as temperatures dropped after sundown.
However he insisted he was protected, saying: “I’ll come down by myself phrases, I’ve mentioned this. However proper now I’m saying I’m protected.
“If you come towards me you are putting me in danger and I will climb higher.”
Westminster Bridge was pressured to shut to visitors in the course of the morning, as vacationers in central London stood round watching the spectacle.
Police mentioned specialist officers labored with the hearth brigade “to bring this incident to a close as quickly as possible whilst minimising risk to life”.
Commons speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle on Monday ordered a safety overview to make sure “lessons are learnt” following the incident, as he thanked these for serving to to resolve it safely.
