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Senior civil servant Richard Jackson has pleaded guilty to breaching the Official Secrets Act after leaving top secret documents on a train. A senior civil servant has pleaded guilty to breaching the Official Secrets Act after leaving top secret documents on a train in June.
More soon. Cabinet Office official Richard Jackson, of Yateley, Hants, allegedly left two highly classified documents on a train from London Waterloo to Surrey.
He was on secondment from the Ministry of Defence at the time.
Mr Jackson was charged under clause 8.1 of the act, which deals with safeguarding information.