Activist cleared of Buck House explosives charge

  A fathers’ rights activist who scaled Buckingham Palace armed with a smoke grenade was has been cleared of possessing explosives. Martin Matthews, 50, and fellow New Fathers 4 Justice protester Bobby Smith, 35, slipped past security and used a ladder to climb the roof of the Queen’s Gallery on 29 November, 2015. The pair unfurled banners, including one bearing the name of another group ‘Stop The War On Dads’, and held press interviews during the eight-hour stand-off. Police officers,…