A self-styled "assassin" who was encouraged by an AI chatbot to break into Windsor Castle with a loaded crossbow to kill the late Queen has been locked up for nine years.Star Wars fan Jaswant Singh Chail, 21, had described himself as a "Sith" and "Darth Chailus" in a sinister video and confided his murderous plan to an artificial intelligence-generated "girlfriend" called Sarai, a court heard.In a journal, he wrote that if the late Queen had been "unobtainable" he would "go for" the "prince" as

A self-styled "assassin" who was encouraged by an AI chatbot to break into Windsor Castle with a loaded crossbow to kill the late Queen has been locked up for nine years.Star Wars fan Jaswant Singh Chail, 21, had described himself as a "Sith" and "Darth Chailus" in a sinister video and confided his murderous plan to an artificial intelligence-generated "girlfriend" called Sarai, a court heard.In a journal, he wrote that if the late Queen had been "unobtainable" he would "go for" the "prince" as a "suitable figurehead", in an apparent reference to the King, then the prince of Wales.Chail was detained on Christmas Day 2021 close to the late Queen's private Berkshire residence, where she and other members of the royal family were staying at the time.The former supermarket worker had scaled the perimeter of the castle with a nylon rope ladder and was in the grounds for two hours before two officers confronted him with tasers.He was armed with a powerful crossbow with the safety catch off w