‘Spy acted in revenge after he had to defecate on the floor’

A former MoD analyst leaked top secret weapons intelligence in a revenge ‘plot’ after complaining police did not take his homophobic assault claims seriously, a court heard. Simon Finch, 50, allegedly worked on a ‘highly sensitive’ missiles system for government contractors BAE Systems and QinetiQ from 1999 until he lost his job in February 2018. He allegedly wrote down the confidential information from memory and emailed it to nine addresses on 28 October 2018. Finch complained to recipients of mistreatment…