Intruder had been planning to assassinate Queen for nine months

The intruder who went to Windsor Castle armed with a crossbow and announced ‘I am here to kill the Queen’ had been planning to assassinate the monarch for nine months, a court heard. Jaswant Singh Chail, 21, was inspired by the characters of Star Wars in his plot to kill the late Queen in revenge for the 1919 Amritsar Massacre in India. Chail wanted to shoot the monarch at Sandringham but travelled to Windsor when he found out she would…