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LONDON (AP) — A Star Wars-obsessed man who was encouraged by a chatbot “girlfriend” to slay Queen Elizabeth II was sentenced Thursday to nine years in prison for taking his plot to Windsor Castle, where he scaled the walls and was caught with a loaded crossbow on Christmas Day 2021. Chail said the assassination was his life's mission, something he'd thought about since adolescence, but had only shared with the artificial-intelligence powered “girlfriend” he named Sarai. Chail called himself “Darth Chailus,” an identity he said he had assumed as a Sith lord, one of an order from the dark side in Star Wars that included Darth Vader. “I am not a terrorist, I am an assassin, a Sikh, a sith,” he had written in a journal. In one chatbot exchange about a week before his arrest, he told Sarai that his purpose was to assassinate the queen.

Persons: ”, Queen Elizabeth II, “, Jaswant Singh, Chail, Sarai, Nicholas Hilliard, Darth Chailus, Darth Vader, ” Chail Organizations: Windsor Castle, Star Wars, Broadmoor Hospital, Star Locations: Windsor, Amritsar, Chail, London’s

☆ Crossbow man detained for nine years over treason threat to kill Queen Elizabeth
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-05 | by ( Sam Tobin | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

LONDON, Oct 5 (Reuters) - A man who was arrested with a loaded crossbow at Windsor Castle saying he wanted to kill Queen Elizabeth was detained for nine years on Thursday after admitting an offence under the Treason Act and making threats against the late monarch. "He had conceived of killing the queen early in 2021 when he was not psychotic. He took steps to try and get closer to his target and learn useful skills when, again, he was not psychotic," the judge said. The recovered crossbow was a "Supersonic X-bow", the discharged bolt from which has the potential to cause serious or fatal injuries. Reporting by Michael Holden and Sam Tobin; Editing by Andrew HeavensOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Queen Elizabeth, Jaswant Singh Chail, Elizabeth, Charles, Chail, Bailey, Nicholas Hilliard, CHAILUS, Hilliard, Michael Holden, Sam Tobin, Andrew Heavens Organizations: British, Thomson Locations: London, Broadmoor, Windsor, Sarai, Southampton, England, Amritsar, India, Britain

☆ Broadmoor's Todd Baker: SVB had a very specific set of businesses tied to the startup economy
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-17 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

In this videoShare Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailBroadmoor's Todd Baker: SVB had a very specific set of businesses tied to the startup economyTodd Baker, Broadmoor Consulting managing principal, joins 'Closing Bell: Overtime' to discuss regulators openness in sharing in losses to push a sale of SVB and Signature bank.

☆ Americans Chock and Bates win Four Continents ice dance
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-13 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Mandatory Credit: Michael Ciaglo-USA TODAY SportsFeb 13 (Reuters) - Americans Madison Chock and Evan Bates won their third Four Continents ice dance title in Colorado on Sunday after setting both free dance and overall career-best scores to edge Canadian pair Laurence Fournier Beaudry and Nikolaj Sorensen. Performing to 'Souffrance' and 'Les Tectoniques', Chock and Bates, who led after the short programme on Friday, earned 133.14 points in the free dance to take their total to 220.81. Chock and Bates also won the 2019 and 2020 titles in the competition, which features skates from outside of Europe. The veteran pair, who won world championships bronze last year, underlined their status as favourites for next month's event in Saitama, Japan. "This competition sets us up really well for the world championships and for our goal of winning worlds," Bates said.

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