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Man arrested with crossbow at Windsor Castle wanted to kill Queen, court hears

LONDON: A man arrested with a crossbow at Queen Elizabeth 's Windsor Castle home on Christmas Day last year said "I am here to kill the Queen", a British court was told on Wednesday.

Jaswant Singh Chail, 20, who has been charged under Britain's Treason Act , appeared in the grounds of Windsor Castle wearing a hood and a mask, the court was told.

A police officer said he looked like someone from a vigilante movie.

The queen was at the castle at the time of the incident on December 25, along with her son and heir Prince Charles , his wife Camilla and other close family.

Following an investigation by counter-terrorism police, Chail was charged with making threats to kill, possession of an offensive weapon and an offence under section 2 of the Treason Act 1842.

This section details punishment for "discharging or aiming fire-arms, or throwing or using any offensive matter or weapon, with intent to injure or alarm her Majesty".

A hearing at London's Westminster Magistrates' Court was told Chail, from Southampton in southern England, said he wanted revenge on the establishment.

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