The motivations of the man who threw himself on the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II last Friday in Westminster Hall are becoming clearer. According to a hearing in his presence on Tuesday at Westminster Magistrates’ Court, he does not believe in the monarch’s death and wanted to find out for himself.
Muhammad Khan, 28, was one of the 250,000 people who queued for hours between last Wednesday and Monday morning to gather in front of the coffin of the sovereign, who died on September 8 at the age of 96. Once in front of the catafalque, he ran to the queen’s remains and was quickly subdued by the guards. His brief intrusion had temporarily interrupted the television transmission of the tributes. He had been arrested and heard by the police, and was charged with two charges.
“The defendant expressed the idea that the queen is not dead and that he approached the coffin because he wanted to check it out for himself,” Luke Staton, the prosecutor at Tuesday’s hearing, was quoted as saying by the outlet. guardian. “He added, before the state funeral, that he had planned to go (to the funeral). He intended to write to the Royal Family and if they did not reply, he intended to go to Windsor Castle, Buckingham Palace and Balmoral to try and speak to the Queen.”
“He thinks Carlos III had something to do with it”
Failing that, Muhammad Khan said he should have “stepped illegally to try and establish contact”, and would have done so “as long as he was alive”. British media report that he was not represented by a lawyer. He was released on the condition that he remain in a psychiatric hospital until his next appearance on October 18.
After the medical examination, he was considered unfit to participate in the legal process and was not questioned by the judge, who said:
“He still deludes himself that the queen is not dead. He thinks that Charles III had something to do with it and that he could go to Windsor Castle to pay his respects, but also because he still believes that she is alive.”
Source: BFM TV
