AN intruder who broke into Buckingham Palace claimed he just wanted a wee.
Thuraisingham Kumanaraj climbed over gates to get into the courtyard of the royal residence, a court heard.
He tripped the security system at 9.30pm and was stopped by police in “around four minutes”, prosecutors said.
He claimed he did not know where he was.
However, internet searches on his phone showed he had researched members of the Royal Family and the Palace.
Last week, Kumanaraj, 52, admitted trespassing on a protected site last August.
Prosecutor Frances McCormack told Westminster magistrates: “He claimed in interview the reason he entered the location was to urinate and denied knowing the site was, in fact, Buckingham Palace.”
Following the break-in, Thuraisingham, of Hackney, East London, was also caught urinating outside a primary school in Brick Lane in September.
He then assaulted four cops, punching one of them on the chin and the throat.
Two days later, he tried to steal a woman’s handbag by grabbing it from around her neck and dragging her along outside Epping Station.
Thuraisingham admitted four counts of assaulting an emergency worker.
He denied but was convicted of attempted theft of the bag.
He was banned from going near protected sites, given rehab, a suspended jail term and tagged for six months.
