21-year-old British-Sikh gets 9 years in jail
for plotting to kill 'Queen in revenge for Jallianwala Bagh massacre'
21-year-old British-Sikh gets 9 years in jail
London: A crossbow-wielding British Sikh who had threatened to “assassinate the Queen in revenge for the 1919 Jallianwala Bagh massacre” in 2021, has been sentenced to nine years in prison by a UK court.
Jaswant Singh Chail, 21, had admitted to treason charges in February this year for scaling the Windsor Castle walls and telling royal guards on Christmas Day 2021 that he was there to kill the late Queen Elizabeth II.
Chail, who identified himself as an “Indian Sikh” in a social media video that emerged soon after the incident, reportedly suffered from mental health issues and was partly inspired to attack the Queen inspired by the Star Wars films.
A London court heard that Chail fantasised about killing the late monarch since adolescence, and had shared this information with an artificial intelligence-powered “girlfriend” he named Sarai.
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