A 20-year-old man allegedly caught with a crossbow close to the Queen’s Windsor Citadel residence declared he was ‘right here to kill the Queen’, a court docket has heard.
Jaswant Singh Chail was arrested within the fort’s grounds on Christmas morning and charged with meaning to injure or alarm the monarch beneath the Treason Act.
He's mentioned to have been noticed carrying a loaded ‘Supersonic X-Bow’ with the security catch off with a line of sight to her flats, the place she was on the time.
Westminster Magistrates’ Court docket heard Chail, from Southampton, was carrying a hood and a masks and instructed an approaching guard: ‘I'm right here to kill the Queen.’
He was then cuffed and brought into police custody earlier than being moved to a high-security psychiatric hospital the place he's presently being held.
Showing by way of video-link, he spoke solely to verify his title, date of delivery and present handle on the facility.
He's charged with a second offence of creating ‘a menace intending that the opposite would concern that it could be carried out to kill a 3rd individual, specifically Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second’.
A 3rd cost claims he had ‘an offensive weapon, specifically a loaded crossbow’ in a public place.
Chail has but to be requested to enter pleas to any of those expenses and was remanded in custody till one other look on the Previous Bailey subsequent month.
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