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A MAN WHO scaled the walls of Buckingham Palace and got into the garden is a convicted murderer, a court heard Friday, as he was jailed for four months.
Dennis Hennessy, 41, repeatedly asked “is Ma’am in?” in an apparent reference to Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II after being arrested by police on Wednesday night.
After climbing the wall, which was up to 3m high, and setting off an alarm, he spent around 10 minutes walking in the palace gardens, prosecutors at Westminster Magistrates’ Court said.
He later told police he had been “admiring the view”.
The queen, her husband Prince Philip and their son Prince Andrew were all at the palace when the incident happened.
Hennessy, of Wembley in northwest London, was imprisoned for the murder of a homeless man in 1992 but was out on licence, a legal term meaning he was still serving his sentence but allowed to live in the community rather than in prison.
During the hearing, he admitted one charge of trespass on a protected site and one of criminal damage.
District judge Howard Riddle sentenced him to four months for trespassing and two months for damaging the wires of the alarm system. The two terms will run concurrently.
It is relatively rare that intruders manage to breach security at Buckingham Palace.
In the most famous incident in 1982, Michael Fagan managed to get into the queen’s bedroom and spent 10 minutes talking to her before she could raise the alarm.
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One person gets in and it’s trespass, Take over a whole country and it’s colonisation hmmm double standards.
Let it go Louis, let it go…
He had a licence so whats the problem?
I have to ask, what is the difference between serving your time on licence and being free?
Genuinely don’t know?
I’m not sure myself KM TON, but is probably only a provisional licence.
You’re not allowed to kill someone if you’re still on licence from the previous conviction.
@Niall, if you have a fully qualified murderer with you, then you are allowed.
I’d say his life insurance will soar after this.
Well that clears that up!! Thanks guys!!
“Hennessy, of Wembley in northwest London, was imprisoned for the murder of a homeless man in 1992 but was out on licence, a legal term meaning he was still serving his sentence but allowed to live in the community rather than in prison.”
I was about to congratulate the Journal on hiring a writer who actually explains terms used in their articles, when I noticed that this is a AFP syndicate article.
Surely the head line should say he “is” a convinced murderer not “was”
Red thumbs you do get he hasn’t ceased being a convicted murder so currently IS a convicted murder and not WAS a convicted murderer
I’m not convinced
But Kal you just wrote He is a convinced murderer………………………….Are you sure about that?
place Lol or whatever next post.
Keep up – he has a licence now.
Are you convicted?
First convicted murderer in Buckingham Palace.
Sounds like he wanted a one way ticket back to prison.
The people who live there are non-convicted murderers. Maybe they were going to compare notes?
Kill the whole lot of them blue blooded f@@kers
What are fatatkers?
She is Germanic and he is Greek, popular immigrants really…
Was he not micro chipped or have an ankle bracelet?
Oh, those crazy loons on social benefits and free licences to do what they like, aren’t they just such great fun for us all to see what they’ll get up to next? Wearing an old bomb belt and blowing up a children’s hospital, I should think?
Give the man a break , he was just ,”admiring the view”, its not everyday you get to see her Majesty in her Ann Summers best …
There was a Hennessy for the Queen, she probably thought it was a race or some brandy lol.
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