Big Ben climber ‘didn’t think he was being disruptive’

A bare-footed protester accused of scaling Big Ben draped in a Palestine flag ‘did not expect his actions to be disruptive’, a court heard. Daniel Day, 30, sparked a major emergency response when he climbed part of the 96-metre-high Elizabeth Tower at the Palace of Westminster and clung to the landmark for 15 hours on 8 March last year, In his closing speech to jurors at Southwark Crown Court prosecutor David Matthew said: ‘The act of climbing the tower and…