CPS: No outside pressure to drop charges against men accused of spying for China

Composite photo of Christopher Berry (left) and former parliamentary researcher Christopher Cash (right) leaving Westminster Magistrates’ Court, central London, after an earlier hearing (PA) - (PA Archive)

No “outside pressure” influenced the decision to drop charges against a former parliamentary researcher and another man accused of spying for China, the director of public prosecutions has said.

Christopher Cash, 30, from Whitechapel, east London, and Christopher Berry, 33, of Witney, Oxfordshire, were each charged with the offence of spying under the Official Secrets Act.