'I'm here to kill the Queen': Crossbow-wielding man admits to treason at Windsor Castle Jaswant Singh Chail, 21, pleaded guilty to three charges, including an offence under the Treason Act. A man has admitted trying to harm Queen Elizabeth II after being caught in the grounds of Windsor Castle with a loaded crossbow. Jaswant Singh Chail, 21, pleaded guilty to three charges, including an offence under the Treason Act, during a hearing at the Old Bailey today (February 3). The late Queen and other members of the Royal Family had been at Windsor Castle when he was intercepted. The most serious charge under Section Two of the Treason Act said that "on December 25, 2021, at Windsor Castle, near to the person of the Queen, you did wilfully produce or have a loaded crossbow with intent to use the same to injure the person of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second, or to alarm her Majesty". He was also charged with making a threat to kill the Queen and having a loaded crossbow, an offensive weapon, in a public place. The defendant had been detained on Christmas Day, 2021, close to the Queen's private residence, where she was at the time. Chail, who was unemployed at the time but previously worked for a branch of the Co-op supermarket, was spotted in the grounds of Windsor Castle at about 8.10am.
