Briton who climbed Korean skyscraper planned to parachute off then flee country

George King-Thompson dreamed of performing the stunt while in Pentonville Prison for three months as punishment for scaling the Shard in July 2019.

George King-Thompson was arrested on Monday after attempting to scale the fifth tallest building in the world in South Korea (Riot E-liquid)

A British man arrested while climbing the world’s fifth-tallest skyscraper in South Korea without a harness planned to parachute off the top then evade police and escape the country by plane.

George King-Thompson, 24, was arrested in Seoul on Monday after climbing the 123-storey, 1,820ft Lotte World Tower – an ascent he dreamt of while in prison for scaling the Shard in London, according to a statement shared by his sponsor.