Jailed for Treason

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A man who broke into Windsor Castle armed with a crossbow in 2021 with the intention of killing the late Queen has been handed a nine-year sentence for treason. Jaswant Singh Chail - who's 21 - pleaded guilty earlier this year. He'll serve some of his sentence in Broadmoor, a high-security psychiatric hospital, before moving to prison. Chail is the first person in the UK to be convicted of treason since 1981. So how can a law which was created more than 650 years ago still have relevance today? In our 5 Minutes On podcast, we hear from Michael Lobban - a professor of legal history at the London School of Economics. (Image: TOLGA AKMEN/EPA-EFE/REXShutterstock)