{"id":19973,"date":"2023-04-22T15:37:14","date_gmt":"2023-04-22T15:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/serving-member-of-uk\/"},"modified":"2023-04-22T15:38:51","modified_gmt":"2023-04-22T15:38:51","slug":"serving-member-of-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/serving-member-of-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Serving member of UK armed forces charged under Official Secrets Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON (Reuters) &#8211;     A serving member of Britain&#8217;s armed forces has been charged with offences under the Official Secrets Act after an investigation by counter-terrorism police, London&#8217;s Metropolitan police said on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The Met said 36-year-old Thomas Newsome was initially arrested on April 18 and was charged late on Friday. He will appear at Westminster Magistrates&#8217; Court later on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Newsome was charged with offences contrary to the Official Secrets Act 1989, which covers the unauthorised disclosure of information by government employees.<\/p>\n<p>(This story has been refiled to remove a typo from the headline)<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p> (Reporting by Kylie MacLellan; Editing by Mark Heinrich)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/serving-member-of-uk\/general-view-of-an-entrance-of-the-westminster-magistrates-court\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportTopNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXNPEJ3L021-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXNPEJ3L021-VIEWIMAGE\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON (Reuters) &#8211; A serving member of Britain&#8217;s armed forces has been charged with offences under the Official Secrets Act after an investigation by counter-terrorism police, London&#8217;s Metropolitan police said on Saturday. The Met said 36-year-old Thomas Newsome was initially arrested on April 18 and was charged late on Friday. He will appear at Westminster [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":19974,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1221],"tags":[1223],"class_list":["post-19973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-u-s-top-news","tag-updated"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportTopNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXNPEJ3L021-VIEWIMAGE.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19973"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20137,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19973\/revisions\/20137"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}