A student convicted guilty of threatening behavior for yelling “f**k the King” and “King Charles is a paedophile” after throwing eggs at the new king.
During a walkabout in York on November 9, 2016, Patrick Thelwell, 23, was detained after tossing “at least five” eggs in the direction of Charles.
He had disputed committing the public order offense, claiming that his use of “low level violence” was “lawful” because it was done in self defense against “the violence committed by the British state.”
Chief Magistrate Senior District Judge Paul Goldspring found him guilty of the charge, saying Thelwell ‘intended to cause King Charles to believe immediate unlawful violence would be used against him’.
Charles and the Queen Consort had just arrived in the city to unveil a statue in honour of the late Queen at York Minster when Thelwell threw the eggs, all of which missed them.
The King continued shaking hands with a member of the public as they sailed overhead, pausing briefly to look at the shells cracked on the ground.
Charles and Camilla were ushered away by security shortly afterwards.
Michael Smith, prosecuting, told York Magistrates Court on Friday that Thelwell shouted ‘paedophile’, ‘King Charles is a paedophile’ and ‘friends with Jimmy Savile’ during the incident.
The court heard the university student was later heard to say: ‘I threw eggs at him because that’s what he deserved. It’s the only justice the victims of colonialisation will ever get.’
He is said to have added: ‘Did I get him? I didn’t get him. Someone will get him.’
Defending himself, Thelwell denied committing unlawful violence, telling District Judge Goldspring he acted ‘out of necessity’.
He said: ‘The violence I was accused of is throwing an egg.
‘If that amounts to unlawful violence then the violence carried out by the British state is at such a severe level I can’t be held accountable for my crime while the crimes of the British state go unpunished.’
He told the court ‘millions of people’ agreed his actions were ‘just, moral and necessary’.
Thelwell, of the University of York, was convicted of using threatening, words or behaviour.