Daring free climber makes it to the top of The Shard

His previous antics have been branded the “height of stupidity”, motivated by “arrogance and a “greed for celebrity”.
However, such condemnation did not stop Adam Lockwood, a 21-year-old free climber, from risking his own life and others to scale The Shard at dawn on Sunday, triumphantly posing for a selfie at the top.
The timing is unlikely to have been a coincidence.
In July 2019, Manchester City Council secured a three-year anti-social behaviour injunction order against Lockwood, prohibiting him from climbing buildings and cranes, riding on the exterior of buses, trams and trains and entering construction sites in England and Wales.
Having breached the order on multiple occasions, he was given a three-month prison sentence, suspended for two years, in August 2020.
In mitigation, his solicitor said his client was motivated by seeking celebrity and financial reward from CZcams. “It’s all about CZcams hits,” he said. “CZcams pay.”
With both injunction and sentence recently expired, Lockwood was ready to scale Britain’s tallest building.
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