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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
National
Margaret Davis

‘Common’ for hostile states to use criminals to carry out offences on UK soil

About £1 million of damage was caused in the attack on an industrial unit in Leyton, the Old Bailey heard (London Fire Brigade/PA) -

More than a fifth of the work of UK counter-terrorism policing is dealing with plots by hostile states, including Russia.

It, along with countries such as China and Iran, uses proxies to carry out crimes in Britain, as the operating environment has become more difficult for spies.

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