TikTok prankster who upset King’s Guard horse, turned up at Downing Street demanding to be let in and climbed gates at Buckingham Palace gloats that his online pranks will make him rich [Video]

The teenage TikTok joker who went viral after being arrested on Whitehall as he filmed a ‘prank’ on the King’s Guard’s horses insists his stunts are ‘harmless’ and simply an attempt to make some money from going viral.

MailOnline can reveal @ymusa18, the joker who was cuffed by armed Ministry of Defence police outside the Household Cavalry Museum on Thursday, is 17-year-old Musa Raza, from Ilford, east London.

Mr Raza says he aspires to be like Mizzy – the troublesome video-sharing lawbreaker who has since vowed to change his ways after being convicted of breaching court orders and stealing a mobile phone – but with ‘harmless’ jokes on the public.

Like other young TikTokers, he says he wants to reach the point where he can make money from his viral videos – which is only possible after accumulating a certain number of followers and views.

But his determination to make money has seen him take unnecessary risks: challenging armed police …