A 20-YEAR-OLD man has been charged with treason after scaling the walls of Windsor Castle armed with a cross-bow on Christmas day last year.
Jaswant Singh Chail, then aged 19, made it into the castle grounds and as close as 500 metres from the Queen's private apartments on December 25, 2021.
Scotland Yard said Chail, from Southampton, has been charged with an offence under section 2 of the Treason Act, 1842 which is “discharging or aiming firearms, or throwing or using any offensive matter or weapon, with intent to injure or alarm her Majesty”.
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He has also been charged with threats to kill and possession of an offensive weapon.
The 20-year-old is currently in custody and will appear before Westminster Magistrates’ Court on August 17
Nick Price, head of the Crown Prosecution’s Special Crime and Counter Terrorism Division, said it has authorised the Met to charge Chail “after he was arrested in the grounds of Windsor Castle on 25 December, 2021 carrying a crossbow”.
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