Matthew Trickett, 37, is accused of carrying out surveillance and hostile reconnaissance on pro-democracy activists in the UK for the Hong Kong intelligence service.
The former Royal Marine charged with betraying his country by spying for Hong Kong fought the Taliban in Afghanistan and Somali pirates in the Red Sea before getting a job working as an immigration enforcement investigator for the Home Office.
Since leaving the military, he has set up his own security company, working as a bodyguard for engineers, foreign dignitaries and corporate organisations as well as wealthy families. Matthew Trickett covers his face as he leaves Westminster Magistrates' Court, central London, where three men appeared charged under the National Security Act of assisting a foreign intelligence service in Hong KongRead More Chinese ambassador is summoned to Foreign Office after three men including a Border Force officer and ex-Royal Marine were charged with spying for Hong Kong - as neighbours give an insight into the life of one suspect Less is known about the other two spy suspects, Chi...
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