Patrick Thelwell, a 23-year-old student who threw eggs at England’s King Charles III last November when he was in the city of York to unveil a statue of his late mother, Elizabeth II, has pleaded not guilty and said the throwing was a «necessary» act.
Judge Paul Goldspring has released on bail the young man, who was arrested shortly after throwing the eggs on November 9 and charged with an alleged offense of «threatening behavior,» pending the court’s verdict on April 14.
Thelwell, however, has insisted that the act was «necessary» and was part of «his protest against the ‘establishment'», according to information from the newspaper ‘The Independent’. A second man charged last December also for throwing eggs at the monarch in the town of Luton has pleaded guilty to what happened.
Although the eggs did not hit Charles III on that occasion, the young man, this time 28 years old, was also charged for the throwing.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
