Holding a blade to his own throat, this was the moment a knifeman brought chaos to the Changing of the Guard ceremony at Buckingham Palace yesterday. Talhat Rehman, 54, of Harrow, has been charged with possessing a bladed weapon in public and affray, and will appear at Westminster Magistrates Court today. The middle-aged man walked through crowds of tourists clutching two large kitchen knives before police surrounded him and used a Taser stun gun to disarm him. As a policeman shouted a warning call of ‘Taser, Taser, Taser’ to his colleagues, the knifeman allegedly lunged forward, brandishing a six-inch blade in a series of swipes, before falling to the floor as he was stunned by the electrical charge. Scroll down for video . Dramatic: Police officers tasered Talhat Rehman to the ground outside the Palace last year . Scary: The dramatic incident saw the 54-year-old brandish two knives in front of hundreds of terrified tourists last February . Down: The knifeman charged towards a police officer outside Buckingham Palace who fired a taser gun at him . A video showed Mr Rehman . shouting and holding the knife to his throat as he walked past the . Victoria Memorial, towards the gates of the palace. Police officers . shouted to tourists to keep away from the man as they raced to surround . him. The Harrow man, who clutched a . set of wooden beads and wore a flat woollen hat similar to the pakuls . traditionally worn by men in parts of Pakistan and Afghanistan, was . later arrested. The drama . unfolded as crowds gathered outside the palace before the midday . Changing of the Guard ceremony, one of London’s most popular tourist . attractions. Witnesses described seeing the bespectacled man breaking . through a barrier and walking towards the palace before he was stopped . and surrounded by police. VIDEO  Man holds knife to throat before being tasered at Buckingham Palace . The moment: This photo (unpixelated at source) was posted on Twitter by Josh Greenberg, captioned: 'Another photo from #Buckingham palace moments ago - Male with a #knife to his neck #Tasered by #Police' Police response: Twitter user Josh Greenberg also posted this picture from outside Buckingham Palace . Eyewitness Kevin Burrows, 33, said: ‘He had a knife in each hand. ‘The police were on him in seconds, he didn’t have a chance of getting close to anyone. ‘They . surrounded him, they were telling him to calm down, and then a . policeman Tasered him.’  Mr Burrows, a kitchen porter from Surbiton, . Surrey, added: ‘The police were fantastic, it was all over in minutes. The procession was diverted away from him and the band just kept . playing.’ Left behind: Knives, a hat and taser wire in an cordoned off area outside Buckingham Palace in central London . On the ground: A pair of trainers and a backpack in a cordoned off area outside Buckingham Palace in London . On scene: Twitter user LondonPRGuru posted these pictures of the aftermath of the incident in central London . Police standing guard: A cordoned off area containing knives, a hat and taser wire outside Buckingham Palace . Witnesses have said the band played on as the chaos unfolded . Another witness, . Grant Shepherd, filmed the incident and put it on YouTube. He described . the scene in a Twitter message, saying: ‘Crazy man with a knife to his . throat just stopped the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace.’ The . Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh were at Sandringham but were understood . to have been informed about the drama. Scotland Yard is responsible for . security at the palace and armed officers maintain a round-the-clock . presence there, even when members of the Royal Family are not in . residence. Police cordoned off the area where the Taser was fired, some 30 yards from the palace gates. The . man, who has not been named, was checked by medics and arrested on . suspicion of affray. Shocked tourists said police told them the man . could have ‘mental health issues’. In . June 1982 an intruder armed with a knife managed to get on to the . palace forecourt before he was stopped. A month later Michael Fagan got . inside the Queen’s private chambers while the monarch was still in bed. Bystanders: Tourists view the personal items of a suspect at the scene between the Queen Victoria Memorial and Buckingham Palace . Forensics: A scenes of crime officer documents evidence from a scene between the Queen Victoria Memorial and Buckingham Palace where police subdued a man with a taser who was in possession of two knives . Up close: A scenes of crime officer photographs a hat and two knives from the scene in central London . Royal couple: The Queen and Prince Philip - who were not at Buckingham Palace at the time of the incident - were pictured leaving St Peter and St Paul Church in West Newton on the Sandringham estate in Norfolk . Sorry we are not currently accepting comments on this article.
Talhat Rehman, 54, charged with possessing a bladed weapon in public and affray .
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Holding a blade to his own throat, this was the moment a knifeman brought chaos to the Changing of the Guard ceremony at Buckingham Palace yesterday. Talhat Rehman, 54, of Harrow, has been charged with possessing a bladed weapon in public and affray, and will appear at Westminster Magistrates Court today. The middle-aged man walked through crowds of tourists clutching two large kitchen knives before police surrounded him and used a Taser stun gun to disarm him. As a policeman shouted a warning call of ‘Taser, Taser, Taser’ to his colleagues, the knifeman allegedly lunged forward, brandishing a six-inch blade in a series of swipes, before falling to the floor as he was stunned by the electrical charge. Scroll down for video . Dramatic: Police officers tasered Talhat Rehman to the ground outside the Palace last year . Scary: The dramatic incident saw the 54-year-old brandish two knives in front of hundreds of terrified tourists last February . Down: The knifeman charged towards a police officer outside Buckingham Palace who fired a taser gun at him . A video showed Mr Rehman . shouting and holding the knife to his throat as he walked past the . Victoria Memorial, towards the gates of the palace. Police officers . shouted to tourists to keep away from the man as they raced to surround . him. The Harrow man, who clutched a . set of wooden beads and wore a flat woollen hat similar to the pakuls . traditionally worn by men in parts of Pakistan and Afghanistan, was . later arrested. The drama . unfolded as crowds gathered outside the palace before the midday . Changing of the Guard ceremony, one of London’s most popular tourist . attractions. Witnesses described seeing the bespectacled man breaking . through a barrier and walking towards the palace before he was stopped . and surrounded by police. VIDEO  Man holds knife to throat before being tasered at Buckingham Palace . The moment: This photo (unpixelated at source) was posted on Twitter by Josh Greenberg, captioned: 'Another photo from #Buckingham palace moments ago - Male with a #knife to his neck #Tasered by #Police' Police response: Twitter user Josh Greenberg also posted this picture from outside Buckingham Palace . Eyewitness Kevin Burrows, 33, said: ‘He had a knife in each hand. ‘The police were on him in seconds, he didn’t have a chance of getting close to anyone. ‘They . surrounded him, they were telling him to calm down, and then a . policeman Tasered him.’  Mr Burrows, a kitchen porter from Surbiton, . Surrey, added: ‘The police were fantastic, it was all over in minutes. The procession was diverted away from him and the band just kept . playing.’ Left behind: Knives, a hat and taser wire in an cordoned off area outside Buckingham Palace in central London . On the ground: A pair of trainers and a backpack in a cordoned off area outside Buckingham Palace in London . On scene: Twitter user LondonPRGuru posted these pictures of the aftermath of the incident in central London . Police standing guard: A cordoned off area containing knives, a hat and taser wire outside Buckingham Palace . Witnesses have said the band played on as the chaos unfolded . Another witness, . Grant Shepherd, filmed the incident and put it on YouTube. He described . the scene in a Twitter message, saying: ‘Crazy man with a knife to his . throat just stopped the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace.’ The . Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh were at Sandringham but were understood . to have been informed about the drama. Scotland Yard is responsible for . security at the palace and armed officers maintain a round-the-clock . presence there, even when members of the Royal Family are not in . residence. Police cordoned off the area where the Taser was fired, some 30 yards from the palace gates. The . man, who has not been named, was checked by medics and arrested on . suspicion of affray. Shocked tourists said police told them the man . could have ‘mental health issues’. In . June 1982 an intruder armed with a knife managed to get on to the . palace forecourt before he was stopped. A month later Michael Fagan got . inside the Queen’s private chambers while the monarch was still in bed. Bystanders: Tourists view the personal items of a suspect at the scene between the Queen Victoria Memorial and Buckingham Palace . Forensics: A scenes of crime officer documents evidence from a scene between the Queen Victoria Memorial and Buckingham Palace where police subdued a man with a taser who was in possession of two knives . Up close: A scenes of crime officer photographs a hat and two knives from the scene in central London . Royal couple: The Queen and Prince Philip - who were not at Buckingham Palace at the time of the incident - were pictured leaving St Peter and St Paul Church in West Newton on the Sandringham estate in Norfolk . Sorry we are not currently accepting comments on this article.
of the Guard ceremony at Buckingham Palace yesterday. Talhat Rehman, 54, of Harrow, has been charged with possessing a bladed weapon in public and affray, and will appear at Westminster Magistrates Court today. The middle-aged man man with a knife to his . throat just stopped the scene in central London . Royal couple: The Queen and Prince Philip - who were not at Buckingham Palace at the time of the incident - were West Newton on the Sandringham estate in Norfolk