Man arrested for rushing Queen’s casket was checking if she was ‘alive’
nypost.comallegedly bum-rushing Queen Elizabeth II’s casket was reportedly checking to see if she was alive. The bombshell came out while the accused culprit, Muhammad Khan, appeared in court.“At the time when you were in Westminster you didn’t accept that the Queen was dead and that was the reason you were moving towards the coffin to satisfy yourself that she was,” Judge Michael Snow told the defendant during the wild hearing, per the BBC.He was addressing the shocking incident that occurred Friday night after the 28-year-old defendant allegedly tried to grab the flag draped over Her Majesty’s casket as she lay in state at Westminster Hall.
Khan had been among about 250,000 people who shuffled through the royal hall between Wednesday and Monday to visit the deceased monarch after waiting for hours along the banks of the River Thames, the Guardian reported.“The defendant had reached Westminster Hall.
He was then seen by officers, who were present, to approach the coffin,” prosecutor Luke Staton said describing the scene. “He stepped off the carpet in the direction of the catafalque, then grabbed hold of the Royal Standard flag draped over the coffin with both of his hands.”A live television feed showed the defendant darting out of line and climbing up the steps to the catafalque before touching the late monarch’s coffin.The London native was subsequently detained, arrested and interviewed by police.
It was then that he reportedly revealed that he believed the Queen — who died on September 8, 2022 — was still alive, the court heard.“The defendant did express the idea that the Queen is not dead and that he approached the coffin because he wanted to check for himself,” declared Staton.
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