Bill Yuen was sentenced to eight years in prison after being convicted of assisting a foreign intelligence service in the UK under the National Security Act 2023. Peter Wai received a 10-year sentence for the same offence, as well as misconduct in public office relating to his role as a UK Border Force officer. The judge said the pair’s actions on behalf of China were “deliberate, concerted and serious“:
“Conduct of that kind threatens not only individual victims but the sovereignty of the state and public confidence…”
Both will serve at least two-thirds of their terms before being eligible for release.
Robert Jenrick on the Today programme:
“Can you now give a guarantee to your listeners this morning that no BBC presenter in the future will be exposed as a paedophile, as a number have been in the recent past? No, of course you can’t…”