central London on Saturday. PC Palmer was stabbed to death in the 2017 Westminster terror attack.Banks, from Essex, said he had been on an all-night drinking session and decided to join fellow football supporters travelling to London to “protect the statues” – but admitted he did not know which statues.He also said he had no idea about the memorial to PC Palmer, and handed himself into police when he was confronted by his father, who saw the images online.
Chief Magistrate Emma Arbuthnot told Westminster Magistrates’ Court she accepted that he was drunk and did not where he was urinating.
She said the incident had caused “public revulsion”.“Your explanation is you had 16 pints to drink, you hadn’t been to bed, and a group of football.