Ex-GCHQ software dev jailed for stabbing NSA staffer

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Terrorist ideology suspected to be motivation

Joshua Bowles, a former Government Communications Headquarters programmer, attacked the individual in March following at least a month of planning, police said.

He will serve a minimum sentence of 13 years after pleading guilty to one count of attempted murder and one count of assault occasioning actual bodily harm. According to another bystander, Steve Bunn, who helped stop the attack while inside the leisure center, Bowles said to him that it was a good thing he didn't have a gun, before likening himself to a terrorist.

The court heard Bowles' search history included research into white supremacy, attacks on women, and Theodore Kaczynski – otherwise known as the Unabomber.Ex-NSA techie pleads guilty to selling state secrets to Russia "I now know he used to work where I work and I'm devastated by this," she said."Following the attack, I went from being in the best shape I had ever been to being the weakest I have ever been."

 

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