Man found guilty over sharing Grant Shapps’s details with ‘Russian spies’

Howard Phillips, 65, gave Shapps's home address and private plane location to undercover officers

A man has been found guilty of assisting a foreign intelligence service after handing over personal details of the then defence secretary, Grant Shapps, to two undercover officers he believed to be Russian agents.

Howard Phillips, 65, was convicted at Winchester crown court after jurors heard he had been seeking easy money" when he offered his services to the undercover officers, known as Dima and Sasha.