She said Chail was angry at the 1919 Amritsar massacre in India as well as partition of the country in 1947, and harboured a desire to “destroy old empires”.
“On 2 December 2021, the defendant joined the ‘Replika’ online app in which users can create artificial online companions who they can then converse with, seeing an artificial representation of the companion on the screen they are using as they chat”, said Ms Morgan, setting out details of his “fantasy life”.
“The defendant created an AI companion called Sarai. The messaging between the defendant and the ‘chat bot’ Sarai was extensive.”