‘I wanted to have a day in court,’ says the ‘spy’ in long johns

A former MoD analyst told the Old Bailey he lied about leaking top secret UK weapons intelligence to foreign embassies because he ‘wanted to be taken seriously.’ 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 – including Tory MP for Southport Damien Moore,…