Admitted Spy, 87, Escapes Prosecution
Melita Norwood, the 87-year-old British great-grandmother who admitted spying for the Soviet Union during the Cold War, will not face prosecution, legal authorities said Monday.
Norwood said in September that she passed secrets to Moscow while working in Britain’s atomic weapons program after World War II.
Solicitor General Ross Cranston said cases of four other alleged spies revealed in KGB papers published this year would not be pursued.
Cranston said Norwood’s statements to the media probably would be ruled inadmissible as evidence, as would intelligence information about her case.
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