The man who entered the grounds of Windsor Castle last year armed with a crossbow told police he wanted to kill the queen, prosecutors said during a court hearing today, the Associated Press reported.

Jaswant Singh Chail, 20, has been charged under the Treason Act with intent to injure Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II

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Chail was arrested at the royal residence west of London on Christmas Day 2021, when the Queen was there.

Prosecutors say the former supermarket worker from Southampton in southern England was hooded and masked and carrying a loaded crossbow.

They claim he told a police officer: "I'm here to kill the queen" before being handcuffed and arrested.

Prosecutor Catherine Selby said the "Supersonic X-Bow" weapon allegedly carried by Chail had the potential to cause "serious or fatal injury".

The prosecution alleges Chail wanted revenge on British society for its treatment of Indians and sent a video to about 20 people in which he claimed he was going to kill the Queen.

To get closer to the royal family, he tried to join the British army and the Ministry of Defense police, prosecutors said.

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Child attended Wednesday's hearing at London's Westminster Magistrates' Court remotely from Broadmoor, a high-security psychiatric hospital.

He was not asked to enter a plea and was ordered to remain in custody until his next court appearance on September 14.

The charges against him are not considered a terrorist crime, Selby said, quoted by BTA.

Charges under the Treason Act of 1842 are rare.

In 1981, Marcus Sargent was charged under this law after firing blanks at the Queen while she was riding a horse during a parade in London.

He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to five years in prison.

The last person to be convicted under the separate and tougher Treason Act of 1351 was William Joyce, a Second World War disseminator of Nazi propaganda known as Lord How-How.

He was hanged for treason in 1946.

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