įagan made an appearance in Channel 4's The Antics Roadshow, an hour-long 2011 TV documentary directed by the artist Banksy and Jaimie D'Cruz charting the history of people behaving oddly in public.Īfter the death of the Queen on 8 September 2022, Fagan told reporters that he had lit a candle in her memory at a local church. In 1997, he was imprisoned for four years after he, his wife and their 20-year-old son Arran were charged with conspiring to supply heroin.
In 1983, Fagan recorded a cover version of the Sex Pistols song " God Save the Queen" with punk band the Bollock Brothers. Two years after entering Buckingham Palace, Fagan attacked a policeman at a café in Fishguard, Wales, and was given a three-month suspended sentence. It was not until 2007, when Buckingham Palace became a "designated site" for the purposes of section 128 of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005, that trespass at the palace became a criminal offence. I can imagine him just wanting to simply talk and say hello and discuss his problems." He spent the next three months in a psychiatric hospital before being released on 21 January 1983. In late July, Fagan's mother said, "He thinks so much of the Queen. He was charged with theft of the wine, but the charges were dropped when he was committed for psychiatric evaluation. Since Fagan's actions were, at the time, a civil wrong rather than a criminal offence, he was not charged with trespassing in the Queen's bedroom. The Home Secretary who held sole responsibility for the police, William Whitelaw, offered his resignation but it was refused by the prime minister, Margaret Thatcher. Ī subsequent police report was critical of the competence of officers on duty, as well as a system of confused and divided command. The incident had happened as the armed police officer outside the royal bedroom came off duty before his replacement arrived. The duty footman, Paul Whybrew, who had been walking the Queen's dogs, arrived, followed by two policemen on palace duty, who removed Fagan. The Queen phoned the palace switchboard twice for police, but none arrived, so she used her bedside alarm bell she also beckoned a housemaid in the corridor, was quickly dispatched to seek urgent help. Initial reports said he had sat on the edge of her bed, however Fagan said in a 2012 interview that Elizabeth left the room immediately to seek security. The Queen woke when Fagan disturbed a curtain. He entered the bedroom of Queen Elizabeth II at about 7:15 am carrying a fragment of glass. In an anteroom, Fagan broke a glass ashtray, cutting his hand. Fagan wandered the corridors for several minutes before reaching the royal apartments. An alarm sensor detected his movements, but police thought the alarm was faulty and silenced it. on 9 July 1982, Fagan scaled Buckingham Palace's 14-foot-high (4.3 m) perimeter wall, which was topped with revolving spikes and barbed wire, and climbed up a drainpipe. He drank a half bottle of white wine, became tired and left. He viewed royal portraits and sat for some time on a throne. Two alarms were tripped, but the police turned them off believing they were faulty. Fagan said he then entered the palace through an unlocked window on the roof and wandered around for the next half-hour while eating cheese and crackers. He disappeared before guards arrived, who then disbelieved the housemaid's report. Fagan says he shimmied up a drainpipe and startled a housemaid, who called security. In early July 1982, Fagan intruded into Buckingham Palace.
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