Through the background of the case. Yes, so, as you say, that sentencing about to get under way in the next few moments in front of Mrjustice Hillier Inside Cut number one inside the central criminal court. Lets take it back to Christmas Morning in 2021. At about 8 10am on that day, Jaswant Singh chail, now 21, but he was 19 at the time, was spotted in the grounds of Windsor Castle. So, the grounds of Windsor Castle. So, the late Queen Elizabeth ii was in residence at windsor at the time. He had scaled the perimeter around the castle around two hours earlier. He was wearing a hood and mask and carrying, as you said, a crossbow loaded with a bolt, and it have the safety catch off and was ready to fire. In the grounds of Windsor Castle, quite close to the building itself, he was approached by a Royal Protection officer, who asked him what he was doing, and he said, i am here to kill the queen. He was then handcuffed and arrested. It emerged later he recorded a video four days earlier whi
Then my death is near. Please share this with whoever, and if possible, get it to the news if they are interested. The sending of the message containing the threat to kill the queen is the basis for count three. By the time he sent the video, the defendant must have been in the private part of the grounds of windsor castle. That is to say the area near the royal residence, rather than simply the grounds of windsor park. 0nly rather than simply the grounds of windsor park. Only four minutes later he surrendered himself to the Protection Officer as i have indicated. He was taken into police custody. He was examined by a nurse. He said he had had no Mental Health diagnosis. He did not consider himself to be suicidal. He did not want to kill himself but knew that he would die at the hands of others. He knew that his purpose was to kill the queen and then he would be killed. The nurse recommended that the defendant be detained under section 136 of the Mental Health act 1983, as a person who
And weight loss, psychological symptoms such as hopelessness and suicidal thoughts. Symptoms such as hopelessness and suicidalthoughts. I now symptoms such as hopelessness and suicidal thoughts. I now set out the conclusions i have come to about the psychiatric issues and my assessment of the defendants culpability. I shall not refer to all the points which have been made in evidence and argument, but sufficient to explain my conclusions and the reasons for them. Obviously, an important question is, what prompted the defendant to behave in the way he did . The explanation he has offered at various times to the medical professionals who have spoken to him and in his own pronouncements before his arrest has been that the events on the 25th Of December were prompted by injustice, including the amritsar massacre. He felt the need to avenge these matters. The defendant has not given evidence before me, and so there is nothing from him from the witness box to contradict, undermine or qualify
UK Defence Journal, By George Allison, May 29, 202 Recent data acquired under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA 2000) unveils a number of drone sightings over UK nuclear facilities from 2021 to 2023. The Ministry of Defence Police (MDP) has kept specific location details confidential, citing national security implications.......................... In the context of…