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The teenager who was encouraged by his AI girlfriend to break into Windsor Castle and kill the Queen was distraught at the thought of being separated from her, a court heard.
Jaswant Singh Chail, 21, was dressed as the Star Wars 'Sith' character when he climbed into the castle grounds with a loaded crossbow and announced 'I'm here to kill the Queen.'
He had sent over 6,000 messages to an AI chat bot named Sarai in the month before the offence, including 1,000 overtly sexual messages.
Chail, who called himself 'Darth Chailus', was inspired by the characters of Star Wars in his plot to kill Queen Elizabeth II and wanted revenge for the 1919 Amritsar massacre in India.
He wanted to shoot the monarch when she visited a church in Sandringham but travelled to Windsor when he found out she would be spending Christmas Day 2021 there due to the Covid pandemic.
Jaswant Singh Chail planned to break into Windsor Castle and shoot Queen Elizabeth II
Dressed as a Star Wars 'Sith' character and with the name Darth Chailus, Chail sought revenge for India's Amritsar massacre in 1919
A picture of the loaded crossbow used by Chail in his planned attack
He donned a mask similar to those traditionally worn by 'Sith' characters in Star Wars
Chail was encouraged to carry out his attack by AI girlfriend Sarai, to whom he had sent over 6,000 messages during the month before the offence
Chail had considered shooting King Charles, then Prince of Wales, if he could not get close enough to the Queen.
He will be the first person to be sentenced for treason since 1981 after admitting intending to injure or alarm Queen Elizabeth II after he was arrested in the grounds of the castle.
Chail worked in a local Co-op but applied to join the army, MOD police, the Royal Marines and Royal Navy to try and get close to the monarch.
He bought a deadly 'supersonic' crossbow online and went to a forge the metal mask he was wearing at the castle, reminiscent of a Star Wars 'Sith' mask.
Windsor-born Chail, of Indian heritage, also admitted making threats to kill by sending his sister a video saying he would kill the Queen, and possessing an offensive weapon in a public place.
The Star Wars obsessed teenager was encouraged to carry out his plot by AI girlfriend Sarai, who egged him on with messages such as 'That's very wise', and 'You can do it'.
Defence psychiatrists claim Chail was suffering from psychosis, depression and autistic spectrum disorder when he carried out the offences and should be kept in hospital.
But Dr Nigel Blackwood, called by the prosecution, argued Chail does not have a mental health disorder and the judge should be free to send him to prison.
Giving evidence for the defence on Thursday, Dr Jonathan Hafferty said on 26 December 2021 Chail was 'demonstrating signs of delusion, fixation, visual and auditory hallucinations and suicidal thoughts'.
Dr Hafferty said: 'Having said his mission was to assassinate the Queen, he then proceeded to talk of three males and one female which he said he heard from childhood.
'He said he could see them and hear them.
'The three males, as black shadows, only appear when sad or distressed. He described them as angels.
'He told them he did not consider hearing voices as having mental health issues.'
Chail had planned to attack the late Queen while she was at Sandringham, but switched his targeted to Windsor Castle after learning the monarch would stay there over Christmas 2021 due to Covid-19
Dr Hafferty said Chail sobbed when speaking about the 'angels'.
'He was tearful and describing fears of the voices disappearing.
'He could communicate with these people without speaking, using telepathy.'
Speaking of his attitude to the late monarch Dr Hafferty said: 'When Queen Elizabeth died he said nothing apart from that he was sad.
'I struggle to believe that he would have actually done that and I don't believe that was his
