A rooftop protestor has hit out at “institutionalised child abuse” by British courts.

Dad Archit Ssan climbed an archway at the Ministry of Justice in central London yesterday dressed as the Incredible Hulk.

A spokesman for campaign group New Fathers 4 Justice said Mr Ssan, from Streatham, had gained access to the top of the archway using a ladder.

He then pulled this up after him and secured himself and the banner to it, to impede any efforts to remove him.

The group claimed his demonstration, held two days before the end of a Government consultation on family justice, highlighted a clause used by courts to block contact between children and dads if it is held to be in the child’s best interest. Protestors insist the measure is over-used.

The banner showed a skull in a judge’s wig and the phrase ‘In the child’s best interests’.

Mr Ssan said: “How can it be in the child’s best interest to have their right to know their father withheld them for no good reason? And yet this is what invariably takes place. It is nothing short of institutionalised child abuse.”

The protestor climed on to the roof at about 1pm yesterday.