A British man who would “dream about being like James Bond” was jailed on Friday for seven years after trying to spy for Russia.
Howard Phillips, 65, was found guilty in July for trying to pass information about former defence secretary Grant Shapps, whom he knew, to two men who he believed were Russian intelligence agents.
However, the “agents” were undercover British intelligence agents.
“You were prepared to betray your country for money,” Justice Bobbie Cheema-Grubb told Phillips at his…
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