Ex-GCHQ worker jailed for terrorist knife attack on US spy at leisure centre

A former GCHQ worker who tried to kill a US spy in a “politically motivated” knife attack at a leisure centre has been jailed for life.Armed with two knives, Joshua Bowles punched and stabbed the woman repeatedly at the centre some three miles from the UK intelligence agency’s base in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, on March 9.Afterwards, the computer software coding developer said he had targeted her because he could not handle the “murky waters of ethics” and “the power that the American NSA have and the things they do”, adding: “I make a pretty shit terrorist, don’t I?”The Old Bailey heard Bowles had developed “anger and resentment” at his former employer, the UK’s intelligence, security and cyber agency, and women in general after being “ghosted” by another American former co-worker.The 29-year-old defendant had planned the attack and searched the internet for topics including American Unabomber terrorist Theodore Kaczynski, attacks on women, and white supremacy.