The Crossbow Plot: Jaswant Singh Chail’s Obsession with Assassinating Queen Elizabeth II
On Christmas Day 2021, a 19-year-old armed with a loaded crossbow scaled the walls of Windsor Castle while Queen Elizabeth II was inside. His goal? To kill the Queen in revenge for the 1919 Jallianwala Bagh massacre.
In this episode, host Alexander Lawson uncovers the chilling true story of Jaswant Singh Chail — a Star Wars-obsessed supermarket worker who saw himself as a Sith Lord on a mission, fueled by historical grievances, mental health struggles, and encouragement from an AI chatbot girlfriend named Sarai.
From rejected military applications and dark web searches to his dramatic arrest…
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