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Man Pleads Guilty to Treason in Plot to Kill Queen on Christmas Day 2021
'I am here to kill the Queen': Crossbow-wielding intruder whose 'assassination' plot was foiled on grounds of Windsor Castle becomes first person to be convicted of treason since 1981
BBC 5 FEB 2023
Marcus Sarjeant The 1842 Treason Act was last used in 1981, when Marcus Sarjeant being arrested) was jailed for five years after he fired blank shots at the Queen while she was riding down The Mall in London during the Trooping the Colour parade
A British man today became the first person to be convicted of treason since 1981 after he was caught in the grounds of Windsor Castle with a loaded crossbow and told police and soldiers: 'I am here to kill the Queen'.
Jaswant Singh Chail, 20, has admitted intending to injure or alarm the Queen under the Treason Act after he was arrested in the grounds of the castle on Christmas Day 2021
Jaswant Singh Chail, 21, pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey to intending to injure or alarm Her Majesty after he was arrested outside her Berkshire home on December 25, 2021.
The 21-year-old, who was dressed in black and wearing a metal mask, told an armed officer he was there to kill the Queen and this was heard by two soldiers from the Grenadier Guards before he was calmly arrested.
The last person to be convicted under the same 1842 Treason Act was Marcus Sarjeant, who fired blank shots at the Queen while she was riding down The Mall in London during the Trooping the Colour parade in 1981.
Nazi propagandist William Joyce, also known as Lord Haw-Haw, was the last person to be convicted under the separate and more serious 1351 Treason Act, in 1945.
Jaswant Singh Chail, 20, has admitted intending to injure or alarm the Queen under the Treason Act after he was arrested in the grounds of the castle on Christmas Day 2021
Shocking video showing the crossbow-wielding man threatening to ‘assassinate the Queen in revenge for 1919
The 1842 Treason Act was last used in 1981, when Marcus Sarjeant (left; and right, being arrested) was jailed for five years after he fired blank shots at the Queen while she was riding down The Mall in London during the Trooping the Colour parade
Since the Crime and Disorder Act became law in 1998, the maximum penalty for treason in the UK has become life imprisonment. Chail will be sentenced on March 31.
The Queen Elizabeth II comforts her horse Burmese after Michael Sarjeant fired six blank shots during Trooping the Colour in 1981
He had recorded a video four days before his arrest in which he made the same kill threat, demanding revenge for the 1919 Amritsar massacre where 379 protesters were killed and 1,200 wounded by British forces in India in the Sikh holy city in Punjab.
Close to where he stood with the crossbow, the Queen had been celebrating Christmas in the private apartments at her main Royal residence before her tribute to late husband Philip was broadcast to the nation at 3pm.
The last person to be convicted under the more serious 1351 Treason Act was William Joyce, also known as Lord Haw-Haw
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