This is the police-eye view of the arrest of Patrick Thelwell, convicted today after he threw eggs at the King in York.
Footage from the arrest was shown at York Magistrates’ Court today (Friday). He was found guilty of threatening behaviour over the incident at Micklegate Bar on 9 November.
In the body camera footage of Thelwell’s arrest he could be heard shouting: “I threw eggs because that’s what he deserves. It’s the only justice the victims of colonialism will ever get.”
The defendant also said: “Did I get him? I didn’t get him. Next time someone will get him.”
Another video played on the phone of one of Thelwell’s supporters showed him saying he had thrown the eggs for “all the people who died so that man can wear a crown, someone who was best friends with Jimmy Savile”.
The defendant laughed as he confirmed to the judge that he had made those comments, at one point saying: “I couldn’t have put it better myself.”
