The person’s actions are usually not being handled as “terrorism”, the prosecutor mentioned.
London:
A person appeared in court docket Wednesday after allegedly getting into Windsor Citadel grounds armed with a crossbow, declaring he deliberate to kill Queen Elizabeth II.
The 20-year-old man, Jaswant Singh Chail, from Southampton in southern England, appeared at a London court docket, having been charged with treason earlier this month.
He appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court docket through video-link from Broadmoor high-security psychiatric hospital, confirming his title and site.
The prosecution instructed the court docket that Chail was held within the grounds of Windsor Citadel, the place the monarch was staying, early on Christmas Day final yr.
Wearing a hood and masks and carrying a loaded crossbow with the protection catch off, Chail got here inside line of sight of the Queen’s residences, prosecutor Kathryn Selby mentioned.
Chail allegedly instructed a safety officer: “I’m right here to kill the Queen.”
Essentially the most critical cost he faces below the 180-year-old Treason Act is “intent… to injure the particular person of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, or to alarm her Majesty”.
Within the final such case, Briton Marcus Sarjeant was jailed for 5 years in 1981 after pleading responsible to firing clean photographs on the monarch when she was on parade.
Chail can also be charged with making a risk to kill and possession of an offensive weapon.
The unemployed former grocery store employee was not required to enter pleas.
– Not thought of ‘terrorism’-
Chail was investigated by the Metropolitan Police’s Counter Terrorism Command, however his actions are usually not being handled as “terrorism”, the prosecutor mentioned.
Prosecutors mentioned he had beforehand tried to hitch the Ministry of Defence Police and the Grenadier Guards infantry regiment, to get nearer to the royal household.
He allegedly deliberate an assault as revenge for the remedy of Indians and had despatched out a video saying he would assassinate the Queen.
Chail will probably be held in custody till his subsequent court docket look, at London’s Previous Bailey, on September 14.
The incident occurred because the Queen spent Christmas Day on the citadel together with her eldest son and inheritor, Prince Charles, and his spouse Camilla.
Though the intruder was intercepted shortly, it recalled an earlier, extra critical intrusion in 1982.
On that event, a person in his 30s entered the Queen’s personal chambers at Buckingham Palace whereas she was in mattress earlier than police apprehended him.
In the summertime of 2019, a person was arrested after climbing over the gates of Buckingham Palace.
In 2018, a homeless man scaled its partitions and slept within the grounds earlier than being caught.
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