A 39-year-old man from Suffolk has pleaded not guilty to threatening Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, the former Duke of York, near his Sandringham estate.
Alex Jenkinson appeared at Westminster Magistrates' Court via videolink on Friday. He denied using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour with intent to cause fear or provoke unlawful violence against Mountbatten-Windsor. The incident allegedly occurred on Wednesday at about 7.30pm while the former prince was walking his dogs near his home at Marsh Farm in Wolferton, Norfolk.
Prosecutor Josephine Jones told the court there 'certainly is a suggestion' that Jenkinson had an interest in Mountbatten-Windsor, who was stripped of his royal status by his brother, the King, in November. Jones added she could not say whether that interest extended to other royal family members.
Jenkinson is expected to stand trial at the same court on 29 July. Mountbatten-Windsor intends to give evidence via videolink. Jenkinson also pleaded guilty to failing to provide a blood specimen while in custody on the same day, and not guilty to a further charge of using threatening words or behaviour against another man, Stephen Terry, in King's Lynn on 6 May.
Jenkinson was granted conditional bail. He must not contact Mountbatten-Windsor, enter Norfolk, or go near the royal residences of Sandringham, Balmoral, Windsor, Highgrove or Buckingham Palace.
