The Indian-origin father of a 19-year-old boy, being held under the UK’s Mental Health Act after being arrested for intruding the grounds of Queen Elizabeth II’s Windsor Castle with a crossbow, has spoken of the family’s anguish over the incident. Jasbir Chail, 58, said that his son Jaswant needs help after he scaled the walls of the castle in Berkshire, south-east England, on Christmas Day while the 95-year-old monarch was in residence.

A social media video, being reviewed by Scotland Yard, later emerged in which a masked man identifying himself as Indian Sikh Jaswant Singh Chail says he wanted to “assassinate” the Queen as revenge for the Jallianwala Bagh massacre in Amritsar in 1919. “Something’s gone horribly wrong with our son and we are trying to figure out what. We’ve not had a chance to speak to him but are trying to get him the help he needs,” Jasbir was quoted as saying in ‘The Times’.