A GATECRASHER has been fined for trying to sneak into Glastonbury Festival without paying - by flying over the perimeter fence.

David Hoare, 59, strapped a paramotor to his back and launched himself from a hill overlooking the site.

He landed in the Sacred Space arena full of astonished fans who had each paid £220 for tickets on the Saturday night of last year's festival.

But security guards saw his canopy and heard the noise from his smaller propeller engine and swooped as soon as he landed.

They removed him and his paramotor before he had chance to enjoy the evening's headline act who was Kanye West.

Hoare, of Somerton, Somerset was prosecuted by the Civil Aviation Authority for flying into restricted airspace.

Magistrates in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset heard he had done exactly the same thing five years before - and been caught then too.

He was fined £400 and ordered to pay CAA £160 costs after the incident on June 27.

He was previously fined him £250 with £100 costs in November 2011 after trying to gatecrash Glastonbury 2010.

The CAA said: "We are determined to take action whenever necessary to protect members of the public, including prosecuting those responsible for flying into restricted airspace.

"Although a paramotor is not classified as an aircraft, and as such the person flying it does not require a licence, they are still subject to the Rules of the Air."

Hoare appeared in the County Gazette back in 2012 when he has his powered paraglider stolen from a beach in Watchet and offered a reward for its return.