Charges dropped against the knifeman arrested on mission to kill the Queen

A Chinese student who claimed he was ‘on a mission to kill the Queen’ when he was caught trying to sneak a knife into Buckingham Palace has walked free. Hang Zhang, 25, had a folding blade in one of his shoes when he was detained after a violent struggle with officers in the Palace courtyard. Zhang insisted: ‘My mission is to kill the Queen’ when he was taken to Belgravia Police Station following his arrest on August 12 this year,…