The alleged incident took place at around 7.30pm on Wednesday night while the royal was out walking his dogs near his home in Wolferton on the Sandringham Estate in Norfolk
Alex Jenkinson appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court today(Image: Instagram)
A man was today released from custody on bail after pleading not guilty to threatening Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor.
Alex Jenkinson, 39, allegedly caused alarm or distress to the royal, who reportedly fled to his car along with his security team during the incident, which took place while he was out walking his dogs near his home at Marsh Farm, on the Sandringham Estate.
He is now set to go on trial at Westminster Magistrates Court on July 29, when Andrew is expected to give evidence via videolink from a location yet to be arranged. The defendant was told he will not be allowed to personally question the former prince.
The long-haired suspect today appeared at Westminster Magistrates Court, via video link from King’s Lynn Police Investigation Centre, with his right arm in a sling. No details of the alleged offences were said in today’s hearing, which saw Jenkinson repeatedly rub his face and seem surprised when he saw on a screen that his case was being heard in London, exclaiming “Westminster?”.
The hearing had originally been listed to be heard at Norwich Magistrates Court on Friday morning before being moved and then delayed until this afternoon. It came two days after police were called shortly after 7.30pm on Wednesday night to a report a man was behaving in an intimidating manner in the village of Wolferton, where the King’s brother has been living since earlier this year.
Jenkinson was arrested on suspicion of a public order offence and possession of an offensive weapon before later being charged with two counts in relation to the incident, including one of “using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour to harass someone or cause alarm or distress”.
Jenkinson is also accused of committing a seperate similar offence against a man called Stephen Terry the previous day. The court charge sheet says on Tuesday May 5, he “used towards Stephen Terry threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour with intent to cause that person to believe that immediate unlawful violence would be used against him by any person, or to provoke the immediate use of unlawful violence by him whereby that person waslikely to believe that such violence would be used, or it was likely that such violence would be provoked.”
He today pleaded not guilty to both charges, but was handed an interim disqualification from driving after pleading guilty to a third charge of “failing to provide a specimen of blood in custody” after officers suspected he had driven a vehicle on the same day he is accused of threatening Andrew.
As part of his bail conditions, Jenkinson was also told not to enter the county of Norfolk, not to contact Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor directly or indirectly and not attend or attempt to attend any royal site, including the Sandringham Estate, Buckingham Palace, Balmoral, Windsor Castle and Highgrove.
Chief Magistrate Paul Goldspring included measures naming Andrew by name rather than imposing a ban on Jenkinson contacting members of the royal family in order to avoid any potential ambiguity about whether Andrew constitutionally remains a member.
Jenkinson today told Westminster Magistrates Court his name and date and birth. When asked for his home address, he gave details of a residence which he described as a “care of address” in Debenham, Norfolk. The court charge sheet had listed him as of “no fixed abode”. It also included that he “used towards Andrew Mountbatten Windsor threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour with intent to cause that person to believe that immediate unlawful violence would be used against him”.
Mountbatten-Windsor has been living in the village of Wolferton since being forced to leave his former Royal Lodge residence in Windsor, which was surrounded by a ring of steel, due to his friendship with the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
He lost his rights to state-funded police protection when he was stripped of his royal title in 2022 during a civil case with Epstein’s late sex slave Virginia Giuffre, which he paid millions of pounds to settle, but admitted no wrongdoing in. Mountbatten-Windsor, who has always denied any wrongdoing, has said he did not have sex with Ms Giuffre, who alleged she was trafficked to the UK by Epstein.
He was also stripped by the King of his right to be called a prince and his dukedom late last year over his links to Epstein and now pays for his own private security out of an allowance given to him by the King to meet his living expenses at Marsh Farm.
