GCHQ declines to comment on role of US defence official stabbed in Cheltenham

Counter-terror police question man over stabbing of woman said to have been working at British spy agency

A US defence official working at GCHQ was stabbed last week in a car park in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, a couple of miles from the British spy agency's distinctive doughnut-shaped headquarters.

The victim, a woman, survived the incident which took place outside a leisure centre in the evening. A 29-year-old man from the town was arrested, initially on suspicion of attempted murder, and then on suspected terror offences.