A PROTESTER has been fined £1,000 for breaching the peace at Glasgow Royal Concert Hall during a Labour event.

Sean Clerkin, 55, was found guilty on Thursday after a trial at Glasgow Sheriff Court of repeatedly demanding to enter an event where Ed Balls, former Shadow Chancellor was giving a speech on April 1, 2015.

He used bodily force to attempt to push by members of staff and repeatedly fell to the ground, alleging he had been assaulted.

Footage filmed by a man with Clerkin captured much of the incident which was played to the court.

Sheriff Tony Kelly fined first offender Clerkin, from Barrhead, £1,000 for his crime.

He and his co-accused Piers Doughty-Brown, 56, faced a charge of behaving in a threatening or abusive manner on May 16, last year at the Labour Party offices on Bath Street, Glasgow, when Jim Murphy announced his resignation.

But both were found not proven on that charge.

The court was told Clerkin “shouted for the best part of an hour”.

Clerkin confirmed he is appealing the conviction.