Jaswant Singh Chail admitted an offence under the Treason Act. making a threat to kill Queen Elizabeth II and having a loaded crossbow in public.
A self-styled Star Wars assassin admitted being on a mission with a “harsh purpose” after being arrested in the grounds of Windsor Castle, a court has heard.
On Wednesday, a psychiatrist who has treated Chail at Broadmoor Hospital since November 2022 was called to give evidence at the Old Bailey during a sentencing hearing. Dr Brown said the defendant first came across these “apparitions” or “characters” in childhood and they returned during the Covid lockdown.
Wearing dark clothes and a homemade metal facemask, he said: “I’m sorry for what I’ve done and what I will do. I’m going to attempt to assassinate Elizabeth Queen of the Royal Family. This is revenge for those who have died in the 1919 Jallianwala Bagh massacre…”
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