A man has been bailed following a security breach at Buckingham Palace on Tuesday (August 9).

The 22-year-old from Croydon was arrested after he was spotted on CCTV climbing over a security fence at the palace in the early hours of the morning at around 4.15am.

The man who was drunk at the time of his arrest has been bailed to return to a central London police station in late August.

He was arrested on suspicion of trespassing on a protected site.

The Metropolitan Police said the man did not gain access to the palace and was not armed.

Officers did not have to deploy a taser during the arrest and said the breach was not believed to be terrorism-related.

In May this year, a man who scaled a 10ft wall at Buckingham Palace, then wandered around the grounds for 10 minutes, was jailed for four months.

Dennis Hennessy, a convicted murdered from Wembley, triggered an alarm on the palace grounds and was arrested by armed police on May 18.