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Accused of spying for testing two British people Beijing Britain government refused brand China The country’s chief prosecutor said that there is a threat to national security.
Former parliamentary researcher Christopher Cash and Academic Christopher Berry were accused of violating the official Secrets Act in April 2024, which “useful for an enemy” and “can be prejudiced for the safety or interests of the UK at the end of 2021 and” the end of 2021 and at the end of 2023.
But Public Prosecution Director Stephen Parkinson said the matter collapsed as no government person was ready to testify, “China represented the threat to national security at the time of crime.”
“When this became clear, the matter could not proceed,” he wrote in a letter sent to MPs on the Home Affairs and Justice Committees of Parliament on Tuesday.
Under the official Secrets Act, a law from 1911, prosecutors would have to show that the defendants were working for the “enemy”.
Both people deny the wrongdoing, and the Chinese embassy fabricated the allegations and dismissed them as a “malicious infamy”.
The case was dropped last month, weeks before the test started, prosecutors said there was not enough evidence to move forward. The collapse of the case gave rise to allegations of political intervention, which the government denied.
British intelligence officials have given their warnings about the secret activities of Beijing in recent years. The government has called Beijing a strategic challenge, but not enemies.
Prime Minister Kir Stamor Said that the government could not provide testimony to testimony because his predecessors, who were in the office at the time of alleged espionage, did not describe China.
He said that evidence had to rely on the assessment of the previous conservative The government, which called China a “era-defined challenge”.
“You cannot prosecute anyone after two years in relation to a designation, which was not in place,” said the stormer.