Top cop admits breaching Official Secrets Act

  One of the UK’s top police officers today (thurs) admitted breaching the Official Secrets Act after a large briefcase containing two secret files was stolen from his car. Former counter terrorism boss Marcus Beale, 54, was given an envelope containing two sensitive documents on 10 May and put them in a locked briefcase in his unmarked police car. Five days later the case had gone missing from the car on his driveway in the East Midlands in circumstances that…