The Director of Public Prosecutions has told a Parliamentary Committee that the Government’s refusal to categorise China as an "active threat" to national security was "fatal" to the attempted prosecution of two alleged spies.
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But the national security official whose evidence was crucial to the prosecution told the same committee that he stood by every word of his statement that China posed a "range of threats" and he was surprised by the decision to drop the case.
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