In a court proceeding, prosecutors said that a British man who entered the Windsor Castle grounds brandishing a crossbow informed police he intended to “kill the Queen.”
According to the UK Treason Act, 20-year-old Jaswant Singh Chail is accused of wanting to “injure the person of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, or to alarm her Majesty.”
He is also accused of possessing an offensive weapon and making death threats.
On Christmas Day 2021, the Queen was staying at the royal residence west of London when Chail was detained.
The former supermarket employee from Southampton, England, is accused of carrying a loaded crossbow with the safety catch off while donning a hood, mask, and carrying equipment.
They claim that before being handcuffed and taken into custody, he informed a policeman, “I am here to assassinate the Queen.”
The weapon Chail was reportedly carrying had the potential to cause “severe or fatal injury,” according to prosecutor Kathryn Selby.
Man sought to avenge the monarchy.
Chail sent a video to approximately 20 people alleging he was going to assassinate the Queen, according to the prosecution’s lawyers, in order to get revenge on the British establishment for how it treated Indians.
Prosecutors claim that he had attempted to enlist in the British Army and the Ministry of Defence Police in order to become close to the royal family.
Chail appeared virtually from Broadmoor, a high-security mental institution, for the hearing on Wednesday at London’s Westminster Magistrates’ Court.
According to Ms Selby, the accusations against him are not being investigated as a “terrorist offence.”
Treason Act of 1842 charges is uncommon. After firing blank bullets at the Queen as she was riding a horse in the Trooping the Colour parade in London in 1981, Marcus Sarjeant was charged under the act.
He was given a five-year prison term after entering a guilty plea.
