British Sikh charged with intend to hurt Queen Elizabeth at Windsor Fortress | World News

Police on Tuesday charged a 20-year-old man with an offence underneath Britain's 1842 Treason Act after arresting him armed with a crossbow at Windsor Fortress as Queen Elizabeth II spent Christmas Day there.

Jaswant Singh Chail, from Southampton in southern England, has additionally been charged with making threats to kill and possession of an offensive weapon following the incident on the fort, southwest of London, final 12 months.

He's presently in custody and can seem at Westminster Magistrates' Courtroom within the British capital on August 17, London's Metropolitan Police stated.

"The CPS (Crown Prosecution Service) has authorised the Metropolitan Police to cost Jaswant Singh Chail with offences after he was arrested within the grounds of Windsor Fortress on 25 December 2021 carrying a crossbow," Nick Value of the CPS, which oversees prosecutions in England and Wales, stated.

"This resolution has been made following an investigation carried out by the Met's Counter Terrorism Command," he added.

Chail has been charged underneath a bit of the Treason Act, which makes it an offence to assault the Queen, or have a firearm or offensive weapon in her presence with intent to injure or alarm her, or to trigger a breach of peace.

This can be very uncommon for prices to be introduced underneath this explicit 180-year-old treason regulation.

Within the final case, Briton Marcus Sarjeant was sentenced to 5 years' imprisonment in 1981 after pleading responsible to firing clean pictures on the monarch when she was on parade.

Nonetheless, William Joyce -- also referred to as Lord Haw Haw, who collaborated with Germany throughout World Battle II -- was the final individual to be convicted underneath the separate and extra severe 1351 Treason Act.

Following the Windsor Fortress incident, the Met stated that safety processes had been triggered inside moments of the breach and that the person didn't enter any buildings.

It occurred because the Queen spent a low-key Christmas Day on the fort together with her eldest son and inheritor to the throne, Prince Charles, and his spouse Camilla.

The Queen often celebrates Christmas at her Sandringham property in jap England, however she remained in Windsor final 12 months as a precautionary measure amid resurgent Covid-19 circumstances.

Though the intruder was intercepted rapidly, it recalled an earlier, extra severe intrusion in 1982.

On that event, a person in his 30s entered Queen Elizabeth's personal chambers at Buckingham Palace whereas she was in mattress earlier than police apprehended him.

Final summer season, a person was arrested after scaling the gates of the Palace.

In 2020, a homeless man scaled its partitions and bedded down for the evening in its grounds earlier than being caught.

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