Please pay for my legal eggs-penses
KING ‘CHUCKER’ PLEA
A PROTESTER who allegedly hurled eggs at King Charles has appealed to the public to pay his £10,000 legal bills.
Patrick Thelwell, who was arrested on suspicion of a public order offence, launched a crowdfunding campaign in a bid to avoid jail.
But the 23-year-old antimonarchy activist has only received £200 in donations.
He is alleged to have lobbed eggs at the King and Queen Consort, missing them, while they visited York to unveil a statue of the late Queen Elizabeth last week.
The demonstrator said he launched the attack to “stand in solidarity with all of the people who are resisting colonialism in the world today”.
He claimed to be facing a £5,000 court fine and up to six months in prison.
Mr Thelwell, who has links to Extinction Rebellion and formerly stood to be a Green Party councillor, launched his
Go Fund Me cash appeal on social media. The appeal, which has since been taken down, saw him pictured smiling and holding an egg.
A caption read: “In solidarity with all of the people worldwide sick of living in a society that punishes the weak and the poor and rewards the wealthy and the cruel.”
He was marched off by police during the York incident, shouting: “This country was built on the blood of slaves.”