A serving member of the armed forces has appeared in court accused of sharing “highly sensitive” military information.
Thomas Newsome, 36, appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Saturday morning charged with two offences contrary to the Official Secrets Act 1989.
Newsome was deployed overseas until April 17, when he is alleged to have made “a damaging disclosure of information relating to defence and which was in his possession by virtue of his position.”
He is also charged with failing to take care of documents or “to prevent the unauthorised disclosure of those documents as a person in his position may reasonably be expected to take” on April 18….