Labour ‘sabotaged’ trial of two alleged Chinese spies.
Ministers withdrew a key witness who was due to testify that China was an ‘enemy’ of the UK
The prosecution of Chris Cash and Christopher Berry was abandoned last month
JACK TAYLOR FOR THE TIMES
Labour sabotaged the trial of two alleged Chinese spies by refusing to describe the country as the “enemy”, it has been claimed.Chris Cash, 30, and Christopher Berry, 33, had been accused of handing foreign policy reports to the Chinese government when charges against them were dropped last month in what the prime minister’s spokesman described as an “extremely disappointing” turn of events. Prosecutors said that the “evidential standard” for the offence — namely the collecting and passing of information that would be “directly or indirectly useful to an enemy” — was “no longer met”. It has now emerged, however, that ministers withdrew a key witness who had been tasked with testifying that China was an “enemy” of the UK, according to The Telegraph. The previous Conservative government had told the Crown Prosecution Service that a senior civil servant would give evidence to establish that China was an enemy of Britain, a requirement for the prosecution to succeed. The Times. 
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