A Metropolitan Police staff member has appeared in court charged with misconduct and breaching the Official Secrets Act after secret documents were leaked to the Sunday Times.
Thomas Lund-Lack, 59, appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court charged by the Met’s Counter Terrorism Command in connection with disclosures of information to a reporter.
He is charged with “wilful misconduct in a judicial or public office” by disclosing secret documents to a Sunday Times journalist, knowing that the information from the documents would be published.
The second charge relates to unlawful disclosure contrary to the Official Secrets Act 1989.
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According to the charge, he “did without lawful authority make a damaging disclosure of information relating to security or intelligence, namely a Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre document”, which was in his possession by virtue of his position.
District Judge Caroline Tubbs remanded Lund-Lack in custody to reappear at the Old Bailey on 1 June.
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