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A former GCHQ worker has been jailed for life after trying to kill a US spy in a "politically motivated" knife attack at a leisure centre.

The woman worked for the NSA, which spies on electronic communications for the U.S., and places some of its employees in the U.K.

LONDON (AP) — A former British cyberespionage employee who had become angry and resentful toward his agency’s work was sentenced Monday to life in prison for attempted murder in the vicious stabbing of an American intelligence worker assigned to the U.K. Joshua Bowles, 29, punched the woman and knifed her repeatedly in what was called […]

A former British cyberespionage employee who had become angry and resentful toward his agency's work was sentenced Monday to life in prison for attempted murder in the vicious stabbing of an American intelligence worker assigned to the U.K.

A former British cyberespionage agency employee who viciously stabbed an American intelligence worker has been sentenced to life in prison for attempted murder. Joshua Bowles will have to serve at least 13 years in prison. He admitted attacking the woman March 9 in the western England town that is home to the U.K.’s electronic spy agency, GCHQ. The victim worked for the National Security Agency, which spies on electronic communications. She recovered after being hospitalized. The judge called it a “politically motivated attack” driven by “anger and resentment” tow...