{"id":62376,"date":"2024-04-22T13:25:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-22T12:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sheffieldwire.co.uk\/?p=62376"},"modified":"2024-04-22T14:00:12","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T13:00:12","slug":"charged-for-spying-for-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sheffieldwire.co.uk\/index.php\/2024\/04\/22\/charged-for-spying-for-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Charged for spying for China"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Metropolitan Police has bailed two men for spying under the Official Secrets Act. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They are meant to appear at Westminster Magistrates&#8217; Court on Friday 26 April.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Qualified as an &#8220;extremely complex&#8221; investigation, Christopher Berry, 32, of Witney in Oxfordshire and Christopher Cash, 29, of Whitechapel, London, are accused of providing prejudicial information to a foreign state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TerrorismPolice?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TerrorismPolice<\/a> investigation by the Met&#39;s Counter Terrorism Command has led to the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CPSUK?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CPSUK<\/a> authorising charges against two men for Official Secrets Act offences.<br> <br>Read more here \ud83d\udc47<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bPDQL02l3e\">https:\/\/t.co\/bPDQL02l3e<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Metropolitan Police (@metpoliceuk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/metpoliceuk\/status\/1782379302920524228?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 22, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Metropolitan Police has bailed two men for spying under the Official Secrets Act. 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Qualified as an &#8220;extremely complex&#8221; investigation, Christopher Berry, 32, of Witney in Oxfordshire and Christopher Cash, 29, of Whitechapel, London, are accused of providing prejudicial information to a foreign [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":162,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1500],"tags":[467,184,1850],"class_list":["post-62376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-news","tag-london","tag-police","tag-spy"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Charged for spying for China - Sheffield Wire<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sheffieldwire.co.uk\/index.php\/2024\/04\/22\/charged-for-spying-for-china\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Charged for spying for China - Sheffield Wire\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Metropolitan Police has bailed two men for spying under the Official Secrets Act. 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