Met worker faces terror leak charge

12 April 2012

A police employee is due to appear at the Old Bailey accused of leaking secret information on terrorism.

Thomas Lund-Lack, 59, was employed by the Metropolitan Police's Special Operations in the counter terrorism command.

He is charged with breaching the Official Secrets Act and with misconduct in public office in relation to disclosing secret documents to a Sunday Times reporter.

An article in the newspaper earlier this year claimed intelligence chiefs feared an al-Qaeda attack on "a par with Hiroshima and Nagasaki" was being planned.

Lund-Lack was remanded in custody by magistrates on May 17 but bailed by an Old Bailey judge a week later.

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