Father of Windsor Castle intruder says his son needs help

Jasbir Chail, 58, said that his son Jaswant needs help after he scaled the walls of the castle in Berkshire, south-east England, on Christmas Day while the 95-year-old monarch was in residence

The Indian-origin father of a 19-year-old boy, being held under the UK’s Mental Health Act after being arrested for intruding the grounds of Queen Elizabeth II’s Windsor Castle with a crossbow, has spoken of the family’s anguish over the incident. Jasbir Chail, 58, said that his son Jaswant needs help after he scaled the walls of the castle in Berkshire, south-east England, on Christmas Day while the 95-year-old monarch was in residence.

A social media video, being reviewed by Scotland Yard, later emerged in which a masked man identifying himself as Indian Sikh Jaswant Singh Chail says he wanted to “assassinate” the Queen as revenge for the Jallianwala Bagh massacre in Amritsar in 1919. “Something’s gone horribly wrong with our son and we are trying to figure out what. We’ve not had a chance to speak to him but are trying to get him the help he needs,” Jasbir was quoted as saying in ‘The Times’.

“From our perspective, we are going through a difficult time. We are trying to resolve this issue and it’s not easy,” he said. According to the newspaper, the suspect’s parents are the registered directors of an IT firm and live with the teenager and his twin sister in a house on an estate in the village of North Baddesley in Hampshire, south-east England. Scotland Yard officers have been seen at the property since Sunday.

“I will attempt to assassinate Elizabeth, Queen of the royal family. This is revenge for those who have died in the 1919 Jallianwala Bagh massacre,” the masked suspect is heard saying in a distorted voice in the Snapchat video. “It is also revenge for those who have been killed, humiliated and discriminated on because of their race. I’m an Indian Sikh, a Sith. My name was Jaswant Singh Chail, my name is Darth Jones,” he adds. Sith refers to villains in ‘Star Wars’ films who take on “Darth” as a title.

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