Buckingham Palace trespasser is convicted murderer

LONDON — A man who scaled a wall at Buckingham Palace and asked if Queen Elizabeth II was home is a convicted murderer, it was revealed Friday.

Dennis Hennessy, from the Wembley area of London, pleaded guilty to one count of trespassing and one count of criminal damage at a court hearing in central London on Friday, the BBC reported.

Prosecutor Tom Nicholson told Westminster Magistrates' Court that Hennessy, 41, walked around the palace gardens for about 10 minutes before he was arrested Thursday, the Associated Press reported. The BBC said the queen is believed to have been at the palace at the time.

While he was being arrested Hennessy asked “is Ma’am in?” — using a term for the queen, the AP said.

The court heard that Hennessy was on parole after being convicted of murdering a homeless man in 1992, the news agency reported.

In 1982, a trespasser evaded security to enter Buckingham Palace and spoke with the queen in her bedroom for 10 minutes, according to media reports at the time. The man, Michael Fagan, was later detained. In 2012, he told the Independent that the monarch did not engage him in conversation but had run out of the room.