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” towards GCHQ and women.
CCTV footage shows how Joshua Bowles punched and stabbed a US spy in the car park of a leisure centre in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, in what was described as a pre-planned attack
Joshua Bowles, 29, launched the attack on the agent on March 9 after becoming disillusioned with his former employer - and having his advances spurned by another American woman.
Joshua Bowles a former British GCHQ worker has been jailed for life after trying to murder a US spy in a "premeditated, targeted and vicious" knife attack at a leisure centre