The 29-year-old was charged after an investigation by counter-terrorism police.
A GCHQ worker has admitted trying to murder an American colleague because she worked at the spy agency.
Joshua Bowles, 29, punched and stabbed the woman, a US government employee, at a leisure centre some three miles from the UK intelligence agency's Cheltenham base on the evening of 9 March. Bowles, of Welwyn Mews, Cheltenham, appeared at the Old Bailey on Wednesday, where he pleaded guilty to attempted murder and assault occasioning actual bodily harm after punching a man, Alex Fuentes, who confronted the attacker in the car park.and prosecutors said there was a terrorist connection because he targeted the woman, referred to in charges only by the code number"99230", over her work.
An earlier hearing was told he was armed with two knives when he launched the attack at about 9.15pm as she left the leisure centre, in Tommy Taylors Lane, with a friend.
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