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.
In this photo provided by the Metropolitan Police on Thursday, Oct. 5, 2023 Jaswant Singh Chail is arrested by police, Dec. 25, 2021, in Windsor, England. A Star Wars-obsessed wannabe assassin who was encouraged by a chatbot girlfriend to kill Queen Elizabeth II was sentenced Thursday for taking his plot all the way to Windsor Castle where he scaled the walls and was caught on the grounds with a crossbow on Christmas Day 2021.
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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