Hong Kong-UK spying row: dead suspect Matthew Trickett’s charges dropped as February trial date set for co-defendants
- Matthew Trickett, 37, had been set to appear in court but was found dead in a public park in Maidenhead, Berkshire on Sunday
- Defendants Peter Wai, 38, and Bill Yuen, 63, appear at Old Bailey in London and are told they will go on trial on February 10 next year
Trickett, 37, had also been set to appear in court on Friday but was found dead in a public park in Maidenhead, Berkshire, about a kilometre away from his correspondence address. Thames Valley Police earlier said they were treating the death as “unexplained”.
The two other defendants, Peter Wai Chi-leung, 38, and Bill Yuen Chung-biu, 63, appeared before Mr Justice Jeremy Baker at the Central Criminal Court, commonly known as the Old Bailey, in London.
Baker told them they would go on trial in Kingston-upon-Thames Crown Court on February 10 next year, with the hearing taking up to five weeks.
It is understood Wai is a UK Border Force officer and director of private firm D5 Security, while Yuen is office manager of the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in London.