Man identified locally as George King-Thompson, who was previously jailed after free-climbing London’s Shard
A British man, previously jailed after free-climbing the Shard in London, has reportedly been arrested inafter attempting to climb the country’s tallest skyscraper without equipment, police said.
Local media identified him as George King-Thompson, 24, from Oxford, known previously for carrying out dangerous stunts and publicising them on social media. In a pre-drafted press release before the climb, King had said he hoped to “evade Korean authorities and get on a flight out of the country, immediately after performing the stunt”, the Times reported.made headlines when he was sentenced to six months in Pentonville prisonSince his release he has scaled the 36-storey Stratosphere tower in Stratford, east London, and was reportedly arrested in 2022 in Spain for base-jumping off Europe’s tallest rollercoaster.
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