Stalker ‘tried to murder GCHQ worker’

A knifeman stalked a female GCHQ worker and tried to stab her to death in a leisure centre car park because she represented ‘the state,’ a court heard. Joshua Bowles, 29, allegedly stabbed the woman at Leisure at Cheltenham in the town’s Tommy Taylor’s Lane at around 9.15pm on 9 March. Wearing a grey tracksuit bearded Bowles appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court charged with attempted murder and assaulting Alex Fuentes when he intervened. Kathryn Selby, prosecuting, said: ‘This was a…