A British man has been sentenced to 14 days behind bars for relieving himself next to a memorial plaque to police officer Keith Palmer who lost his life protecting Parliament during the 2017 terrorist attack.
Westminster Magistrates Court found Andrew Banks, aged 28, guilty for “outraging public decency,” the UK media reported on Monday. The Stansted native caused massive uproar after photographs surfaced online showing him urinating less than a foot away from PC Keith Palmer’s memorial outside the Houses of Parliament in London.
Palmer, a Met Police veteran, stopped a knife-wielding terrorist from entering the Palace of Westminster during the 2017 terrorist attack. Being unarmed, he died from stab wounds and was posthumously awarded the George Medal, the second-highest peacetime award for gallantry.
Absolute shame on this man.
Of all the images to emerge over these few testing days I find this one of most abhorrent.
Please help identify him. pic.twitter.com/8ydcNmTWrN
— Tobias Ellwood MP (@Tobias_Ellwood) June 13, 2020
Banks himself, as prosecutors revealed, came to the UK capital to join massive rallies against the toppling of controversial monuments this weekend, but he did not know “which statues” protesters were to protect.
When the incident took place, he was heavily intoxicated, it turns out. The man surrendered to police after his father confronted him on the back of mounting fury on social media.
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Source: RT