A British man who broke into Windsor Castle with a loaded crossbow and planned to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II has been handed a nine-year jail sentence. <\/p>\n
Jaswant Singh Chail, 21, was arrested on Christmas Day 2021 within the grounds of the royal residence, where the late monarch was staying during the pandemic. <\/p>\n
Chail was thought to have scaled the castle\u2019s perimeter with a nylon rope ladder before he was detained. Wearing black clothes and a sinister metal mask, he told a police protection officer, \u201cI am here to kill the Queen,\u201d before being arrested. <\/p>\n
In February, Chail pleaded guilty to three charges, including treason and possession of an offensive weapon, at a hearing at London\u2019s Old Bailey court. <\/p>\n
Sentencing judge Justice Hilliard jailed him for nine years with a further five years on extended licence, the PA Media news agency reported Thursday. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe defendant harbored homicidal thoughts which he acted on before he became psychotic,\u201d the judge said. \u201cHis intention was not just to harm or alarm the sovereign \u2013 but to kill her.\u201d <\/p>\n
Chail was sentenced under a \u201chybrid order\u201d under the Mental Health Act, meaning he will serve his term at Broadmoor high-security psychiatric hospital until he is well enough to be transferred to prison, according to PA Media. <\/p>\n
The court heard that Chail was a \u201cStar Wars\u201d fan who described himself as a \u201cSith\u201d in a video that he sent to about 20 people after breaching the castle grounds, and had been pushed to break into the castle by his AI chatbot \u201cgirlfriend,\u201d the UK news agency reported. <\/p>\n
The Old Bailey was also told that Chail wrote in a journal he tried to email his sister that if the sovereign was \u201cunobtainable\u201d he would \u201chave to go for\u201d the prince, an apparent reference to then-Prince Charles, as \u201che seems to be just as suitable in many ways.\u201d <\/p>\n
British media reported that Chail was the first person in the UK to be convicted of treason in over 40 years. <\/p>\n
According to PA Media, Chail apologized to the royal family in a letter to the court, in which he expressed his \u201cdistress and sadness.\u201d <\/p>\n
\u201cHe is embarrassed and ashamed he brought such horrific and worrying times to their front door,\u201d his barrister Nadia Chbat said. \u201cHe has expressed relief no one was actually hurt.\u201d <\/p>\n\n
A British man who broke into Windsor Castle with a loaded crossbow and planned to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II has been handed a nine-year jail sentence. Jaswant Singh Chail, 21, was arrested on Christmas Day 2021 within the grounds of the royal residence, where the late monarch was staying during the pandemic. Chail was thought <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":9736,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9735","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}