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These charges were not pursued and were ordered to lie on file.

A second charge of unauthorised computer access was ordered to lie on file.

"Those documents exist, they will be on file... it's inconceivable they would not have been shown concerns raised by the security services through the vetting process," he told BBC Breakfast.

The plans included running all phone-based requests for bank account changes against a Treasury Department database of suspicious accounts and analyzing such calls to verify whether they were being made from the vicinity of the address on file of the person purportedly calling.

The Crown Prosecution Service indicated it would not proceed with the kidnap charges against the pair and that those alleged offences would lie on file.