UK authorities find young man who threw eggs at King Charles guilty

Patrick Thelwell.

UK authorities found a young man who threw eggs at King Charles guilty of threatening behaviour at York Magistrates Court, BBC reported yesterday.

The young man, 23 year old Patrick Thelwell, hurled five eggs at King Charles and the Queen Consort as they arrived at Micklegate Bar on November 9 2022. All five eggs missed. At the time, Thelwell had been a student at University of York.

Thelwell admitted that he threw the eggs, however, he claimed that his act was “lawful violence”. Thelwell asked…

“Do you think throwing eggs is serious violence? More than the violence carried out by the British state?”

However, Senior district judge Paul Goldspring called Thelwell’s act “gratuitous and pernicious,” as well as “an unprovoked, targeted act” against a 74 year old man. Thelwell was given a 12-month community order…