Joshua Bowles entered his guilty pleas at the Old Bailey on Wednesday.
A former GCHQ worker has admitted attempting to murder a US spy after launching a knife attack on her outside a leisure centre.
Bowles, of Welwyn Mews, Cheltenham, targeted his victim, who is referred to in charges only by the code number 99230, because he believed she worked at GCHQ and represented the state. He was armed with two knives when he launched the attack at about 9.15pm as the woman left the leisure centre, in Tommy Taylors Lane, with a friend.
During Bowles’s first appearance at Westminster Magistrates’ Court, prosecutor Kathryn Selby said the case, which she said involved a “planned attack”, should be dealt with under the terrorism protocol.
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