UK man admits ‘threatening to kill’ Queen Elizabeth II, to be sentenced on March 31
Queen Elizabeth died in September 2021 due to old age.
A 21-year-old man in the United Kingdom (UK) pleaded guilty at London'sOld Bailey court on Friday (February 3)to an offence under the Treason Act and threatening to kill late Queen Elizabeth II in 2021.Jaswant Singh Chail admitted the offences afterhe was arrested wearing a hood, mask and gloves in the grounds of the castle to the west of London on Christmas day in 2021. Queen Elizabeth II wasat the castle with her family on the day of the intrusion.
Chail was carrying a crossbow loaded with a bolt, and officers drew their Taser guns and arrested him.
Nick Price, Head of the Crown Prosecution Service's Special Crime and Counter Terrorism Division, said, "Chail entered the protected areas within Windsor Castle after making threats to kill her late Majesty QueenElizabethII. Thankfully, police officers intervened and nobody was hurt," news agency Reuters reported. Price added that it was a serious incident, but fortunately a rare one.
At an earlier court hearing, prosecutors saidChail had spent months planning the attack. "I am here to kill the queen," Chail told a protection officer who approached He wanted to kill the late monarch as revenge for the 1919 Jallianwala Bagh massacre in Amritsar in a social media video that emerged soon after his arrest.
During Friday's hearing, Chail spoke only to confirm his name and enter guilty pleas to three charges –making threats to kill, possession of an offensive weapon, and an offence under the 1842 Treason Act. Judge Jeremy Baker said that the man would be sentenced on March 31, the Reuters report added.
In last such case in 1981,Marcus Sarjaent was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment under the Treason Act after pleading guilty to firing blank shots at the Queen during the annual "Trooping the Colour" parade in central London.
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