Man Admits Attempted Murder of American Who Worked at GCHQ

Attacker Joshua Bowles, 29, was himself a former GCHQ employee

Photo-illustration of web flash pages for GCHQ, the British government's communications and electronic surveillance headquarters, and The Security Service (MI5), the governments internal security service, on a computer and smartphone in London, on Nov. 25, 2016. AP Photo/Alastair Grant

A man has pleaded guilty to attempting to murder an American woman who worked at GCHQ, Britain’s intelligence and eavesdropping centre.

Joshua Bowles stabbed and punched the woman, who has not been identified and was only referred to in court by the code number 99230, at a leisure centre in Cheltenham, three miles from GCHQ.