A man has been arrested after climbing a gate at Buckingham Palace.

Police were alerted to the incident on the south gate shortly before 1.45pm on Friday (October 7).

The 21-year-old man soon dropped to the ground and was arrested for trespassing on a designated site.

A police search found he was not in possession of any offensive weapons.

He was taken into custody and will undergo a mental health assessment.

Police enquiries are continuing. The Met has not said if the Queen was at the palace at the time.

It is the second security incident at the palace after a man was arrested climbing over a wall in May .

It later emerged the man, Dennis Hennessy from Wembley, was a a convicted murderer .

He then walked around the gardens for around 10 minutes towards the Palace, where the Queen was in residence with the Duke of Edinburgh and the Duke of York, before being arrested by armed police.

He told police he was “admiring” the Royal gardens and asked police when he was arrested: “Is Ma’am in?” He had been in the grounds for seven minutes.

Hennessey pleaded guilty at Westminster Magistrates’ Court to one count of trespass on a protected site and one count of criminal damage, and was jailed for four months.