ShareSaveAdd as preferred on GoogleDaniel SandfordUK correspondentPAChi Leung "Peter" Wai misused his access to the Home Office computer systemA UK immigration officer has been found guilty of working for Chinese intelligence as part of a "shadow policing operation".
Chi Leung "Peter" Wai, 38, used his access to the main immigration database to track Hong Kong dissidents based in the UK.
He was found guilty of assisting a foreign intelligence service alongside Chung Biu "Bill" Yuen, 65, who was initially his contact with the Hong Kong authorities.
Wai was also found guilty of misconduct in public office.
The jury could not agree on a charge against both men of foreign interference. The prosecution said it would not be seeking a retrial.
Wai also drew a fellow Border Force officer, an ex-Royal Marine called Matthew Trickett, into his surveillance of Hong Kong dissidents, the court heard.
Trickett was found dead in a suspected suicide soon after they were caught by counter-terrorism police.
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