MoD ‘spy’ said he’d sooner serve five years than allow police to examine his hard drive

A former MoD analyst accused of leaking top secret weapons intelligence in revenge against the British state told police his ‘conscience is clear,’ a court heard. Simon Finch, 50, allegedly had access to highly sensitive details about a missiles system still in use by the armed forces while he worked as a defence contractor between 1999 and 2018. He typed up the information from memory and emailed it to nine recipients in a revenge ‘plot’ against the British state after…