‘I was left at the mercy of bigots’

A former MoD analyst accused of leaking weapons intelligence to hostile foreign powers said today (tues) he was ‘left at the mercy of bigots’ when he tried to report hate crimes. Simon Finch, 50, 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…