A Star Wars-obsessed man who says he was encouraged by a chatbot girlfriend to slay Queen Elizabeth II has been sentenced to nine years in prison for taking his plot to Windsor Castle. Jaswant Singh Chail was arrested on the grounds of the castle with a loaded crossbow on Christmas Day 2021. He pleaded guilty in London’s Central Criminal Court to violating the Treason Act by having a loaded crossbow and intending to use it to injure the queen and making threats to kill. Justice Nicholas Hilliard said Thursday that despite conflicting diagnoses he concluded that Chail had become psychotic and will be returned to a secure psychiatric treatment center before going to prison.
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Chail said that as a Sikh Indian, he wanted to kill the queen to avenge the 1919 Jallianwala Bagh massacre when British troops opened fire on thousands of Indians gathered in Amritsar and killed as many as 1,500, a judge said in reciting the facts of the crime. Chail said the assassination was his life’s mission, something he’d thought about since adolescence, but had only shared with the artificial-intelligence powered “girlfriend” he named Sarai.
Chail, 21, pleaded guilty in February in London’s Central Criminal Court to violating the Treason Act by having a loaded crossbow and intending to use it to injure the queen, possessing an offensive weapon and making threats to kill. Chail called himself “Darth Chailus,” an identity he said he had assumed as a Sith lord, one of an order from the dark side in Star Wars that included Darth Vader.
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