Fathers’ rights activist scaled Buckingham Palace with smoke grenade

A fathers’ right activist looking for ‘maximum publicity’ scaled Buckingham Palace armed with a smoke grenade, a court heard. 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, clad in…