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Tom Pettifor

Man stabbed woman at leisure centre because he thought she was GCHQ agent, court hears

A knifeman tried to murder a woman who he thought worked at GCHQ because she represented "the state", a court has heard.

Joshua Bowles, 29, has been charged with attempted murder and assault occasioning actual bodily harm.

Bowles allegedly launched the attack on the woman as she left a leisure centre in Cheltenham, three miles from the UK intelligence agency's base.

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