Serving member of armed forces, 36, is charged with breaking Official Secrets and techniques Act after Met counter-terror investigation
A person has been charged with offences below the Official Secrets and techniques Act following an investigation by the Met’s Counter Terrorism Command.Â
Thomas Newsome, 36, a serving member of the armed forces, has been charged with offences below the Official Secrets and techniques Act, Scotland Yard stated.Â
Newsome, who’s a serving member of the UK’s Armed Forces, was initially arrested and detained below PACE on Tuesday April 18.
A warrant of additional detention was obtained from Westminster Magistrates’ Courtroom on April 20, permitting police to detain him till April 22.
He was subsequently charged late on Friday April 21 with offences opposite to part 2 and part 8 of the Official Secrets and techniques Act, 1989.
He has been remanded in police custody and is because of seem at Westminster Magistrates’ Courtroom on Saturday April 22.
Thomas Newsome, 36, a serving member of the armed forces, has been charged with offences below the Official Secrets and techniques Act, Scotland Yard stated
Beforehand a safety guard who despatched labeled paperwork to Russia and snooped round colleagues’ desks on the British embassy in Berlin was charged below the Official Secret’s Act
David Smith, 58, admitted sending labeled paperwork to the Russian Embassy anonymously in Might and November 2020.
Paisley-born Smith started amassing secret materials over 4 years and was caught following an undercover sting in August 2021.
The previous RAF serviceman pleaded responsible to eight expenses below the Official Secrets and techniques Act and was sentenced to 13 years and two months in jail.
