Man admits treason over Windsor Castle Queen crossbow threat

A antheral who arrived astatine Windsor Castle equipped with a crossbow and told a constabulary serviceman "I americium present to termination the Queen" has pleaded blameworthy to a complaint nether the Treason Act.

Jaswant Singh Chail, from Hampshire, was arrested connected Christmas Day 2021, erstwhile the precocious monarch was surviving astatine Windsor owed to the Covid pandemic.

At the Old Bailey earlier, Chail, 21, pleaded blameworthy to 3 charges.

He is the archetypal idiosyncratic successful the UK to beryllium convicted of treason since 1981.

Chail, from North Baddesley, adjacent Southampton, besides admitted making threats to termination and possessing the loaded limb successful the castle.

He is presently successful Broadmoor Hospital, wherever helium appeared successful tribunal via a distant video link.

He was spotted by a royal extortion serviceman successful a backstage conception of the castle grounds conscionable aft 08:10 GMT connected 25 December 2021.

The serviceman was astatine a gate, starring to the monarch's backstage apartments.

Chail had climbed into the grounds utilizing a nylon enactment ladder, and had already been determination for astir 2 hours.

He was wearing a hood and a mask, and was described arsenic "like thing retired of a vigilant movie".