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The memorial for Pc Keith Palmer was unveiled outside the house Parliament in 2018
A gentleman has admitted urinating at the Westminster memorial devoted to Personal computer Keith Palmer.
Andrew Banking companies, 28, of Stansted, Essex, was photographed during Saturday’s suitable-wing protests in London.
He was sentenced to 14 days in custody, after pleading guilty to outraging general public decency at Westminster Magistrates’ Court docket.
Pc Palmer, 48, was stabbed whilst on obligation in the course of the Westminster terror attack on 22 March 2017.
He was just one of five folks murdered by Khalid Masood.
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Pc Keith Palmer was unarmed as he was attacked by Khalid Masood
The impression of Financial institutions was widely shared on social media on Saturday as violent clashes between significantly-appropriate protesters and law enforcement took put in central London.
Prosecutor Michael Mallon stated Banks, a Tottenham Hotspur lover, was in central London to “safeguard statues”, but admitted he did not know which statues.
He was mentioned to have drunk 16 pints throughout Friday evening into Saturday morning, and experienced not been to snooze.
Banks contacted law enforcement after getting confronted by his father, the court docket read.
His counsel Stuart Harris stated his shopper was “ashamed by his action”, and had psychological health and fitness problems.
The act was widely condemned at the time by politicians like MP Tobias Ellwood, who gave to start with aid to Personal computer Palmer as he lay dying in the grounds of Parliament.
