{"id":74794,"date":"2025-10-17T03:44:22","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T18:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/16\/head-of-cps-faces-cross-party-pressure-to-explain-china-spy-trial-collapse"},"modified":"2025-10-17T03:44:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T18:44:22","slug":"head-of-cps-faces-cross-party-pressure-to-explain-china-spy-trial-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=74794","title":{"rendered":"Head of CPS faces cross-party pressure to explain China spy trial collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Parkinson called on to give \u2018fuller explanation\u2019 as MI5 expresses frustration over charges being dropped<\/p>\n<p>The director of public prosecutions has come under intense cross-party pressure to explain why the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/law\/2025\/oct\/08\/why-has-the-uk-dropped-its-trial-of-two-alleged-china-spies\">China spy trial collapsed<\/a> as MI5 expressed frustration at the decision and MPs launched a series of inquiries into how it was taken.<\/p>\n<p>The chairs of the home affairs, foreign affairs, justice and national security committees wrote together to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2025\/oct\/16\/china-spying-case-dream-job-turns-into-nightmare-for-dpp-stephen-parkinson\">Stephen Parkinson, the head of the Crown Prosecution Service<\/a> (CPS), on Thursday calling on him to give \u201ca fuller explanation for the dropping of charges\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/16\/head-of-cps-faces-cross-party-pressure-to-explain-china-spy-trial-collapse\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Parkinson called on to give \u2018fuller explanation\u2019 as MI5 expresses frustration over charges being droppedThe director of public prosecutions has come under intense cross-party pressure to explain why the China spy trial collapsed as MI5 expresse&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5023,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50,3421,3411,667,3419,1622,902,86,1345,4,52,476],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-chris-philp","category-crown-prosecution-service","category-espionage","category-jonathan-powell","category-keir-starmer","category-labour","category-law","category-mi5","category-politics","category-uk-news","category-uk-security-and-counter-terrorism"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5023"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74795,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74794\/revisions\/74795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}