Student who threw eggs at King Charles sentenced to work 100 hours without pay, York court in London convicted the student

London: A student who threw eggs at Britain’s King Charles-III last year was found guilty by London’s York Court on Friday. The student who threw the egg at Charles claimed that he was responding to the violence in the state. The man accused is Patrick Thelwell, 23, who has now been sentenced to 100 hours of community work without pay. Thelwell was arrested in December last year.

Chief Magistrate Judge Paul Goldspring of York Court found the student guilty. He added that Thelwell was engaged in convincing King Charles that illegal violence would soon be used against Charles III. Thelwell denied the crime charged against him in court. The accused student said that throwing the egg at King Charles was not violence, but a self-defense against the violence perpetrated by the British state.

Last year, King Charles-III faced protests during a royal tour. It is known that he became King after the death of Queen Elizabeth II in September. He has been traveling widely across Britain since becoming king, when Patrick Thelwell pelted Charles with at least five eggs while the king and his wife, Queen Camilla, were meeting members in the northeastern city of York on 9 November. created. People in the crowd called Thelwell ‘shame on you’ while some chanted ‘God save the king’ to save Charles.

It is known that the incident of egg throwing on the royal family of Britain is not a new thing. In 2002, eggs were thrown at the royal car of Queen Elizabeth II. She was visiting Nottingham in central England at the time. In 1995, an egg was thrown at the then Prince Charles by anti-British monarchy protesters during a walkout in central Dublin.