Prosecutors defend spy case failure

British prosecutors on Tuesday said they did "everything possible" to bring a trial of two men accused of spying for China to court, but it collapsed when the government declined to label Beijing an enemy.

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In an unexpected move, British prosecutors last month dropped charges of spying for China against two men just weeks before they were due to go on trial.

The men, Christopher Cash, 30, a former director of the China Research Group think tank, and Christopher Berry, 33, were first arrested in March 2023, and in April the following year were charged with passing politically sensitive information to a Chinese intelligence agent.

They denied all the accusations against them.