A man who admitted smashing a stained-glass window at an historic church in Kew has been fined more than £11,000.

50-year-old Craig Knight from East London broke into St Anne’s while drunk in January.

He pleaded guilty to criminal damage and removal of human remains from a place of burial and was handed a 12-month community order.

Founded in 1714, Queen St Anne’s Church is a Grade II listed building with a rich and varied history.

The church has several important tombs including painters Thomas Gainsborough, Johann Zoffany and George Engleheart.

Notable figures in the botanic world buried at St Anne’s include Sir Williams Jackson Hooker, first director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and his son Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker.