A 21-year-old man who admitted wanting to kill Queen Elizabeth II with a crossbow at Windsor Castle on Christmas Day 2021 was sentenced in London on Thursday to nine years in a mental hospital and then to prison, reports said AFP.

Mentally ill Jaswant Singh Chail was detained on the morning of December 25, 2021, when he, with his face covered by a metal mask, was holding a crossbow near the house of the 95-year-old sovereign on the street. time.

Under the “hybrid” sentence handed down by Judge Nicholas Hilliard, he will remain in a psychiatric hospital until his condition allows him to be transferred to prison.

The Queen was living in the castle at the time during the Covid-19 pandemic and was there for year-end celebrations with other members of the royal family, including Charles, who became king last September after Elizabeth’s death. II.

During his arrest, after entering the perimeter of the castle, he told the police that “he was there to kill the queen”. Then he was hospitalized in a psychiatric hospital.

Jaswant Singh Cheil, who was tried under the Treason Act, pleaded guilty in February to “willfully making or possessing a loaded crossbow with intent to use it to injure the person of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II or His Majesty.

He also pleaded guilty to threatening to kill and illegal possession of a weapon.