In the past they would've hung, drawn, & quartered scum like him, but my guess is that once released from prison he'll mysteriously have a fatal accident!
@@mrthai-rg9nv Lmao. Imagine caring about where people are born from and thinking it makes you better than others 😂 every country including yours and mine is shit. Thinking otherwise makes you a human not even worth talking to
No CCTV anywhere. CCTV is in almost every public space and places of work, but for a place which handles top secret documents, they see it as unnecessary.
He thought he was evading all internal surveillance. But little did he know that the "friendly colleagues" he would greet each morning when clocking-in at work, were also playing along!
How long is life sentence in the UK? When is the earliest possible release? Sorry for asking. I think in Germany the maximum is 25 years, except when a high danger for society beyond the sentence is assessed.
He's a bit older so he might not even live through his sentence, not to mention that he might get murked in prison because there's always someone that's more patriotic than reasonable
Two remarks: There must be something wrong with the vetting/ issuing/ updating security clearance protocol at the Foreign Office, and there must be something very wrong with the compartmentalization protocol at the embassy if a locally hired security guard is caught only after so many years in service.
I can tell you that the vetting is more relaxed for white counter parts than it is for people of colour. We as people of colour go through discrimination not only in the recruitment process but also in the vetting.
All of these comments r ppl working for Russia. What’s wrong is Russia, Russian trolls, and the greedy ppl in the West willing to harm their own countries for money.
@@MsWatchdog bit of a sweeping statement, are you sure you're not seeing racism due to skin colour, where perhaps it's greater vetting based on ethnic origin. For example, I imagine people with ethnic origins to Russia, china, Iraq, Iran, North Korea etc etc, would (and should) be vetted with even greater scrutiny when employed into the British government, compared to British citizens of several generations. If you assume racism everywhere, you'll see it everywhere. True racism is rare in the developed world, and suggesting it so sweepingly dilutes how disgusting the true act is
👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 He deserves a much more serious sentence. That insane man even supported the stupid Donbas separatists, who, together with the Russian authorities, tried to make their territory Russian in 2014, just like it happened with Crimea during the same year. I was born in Russia and in 2014 still lived there, but even I didn't support the Crimean annexation and the insane Donbas separatists. This former embassy employee is really sinister.
There IS a SOLUTION to the Russian speaking Separatists in the Donbas when this war is OVER! Since they want to be part of Russia and want to speak Russian, DEPORT ALL of them to Russia! Problem SOLVED!
Donbas separatists have every right to want to separate. You're a hypocrite who'd be applauding this man if he'd just happened to be a Russian spying for us.
Ikr?! And here in the "colonies" , we have 1 President that had doc in his house, an ex President who just flat out STOLE them & who the hell knows about his Ex VP! 🤣😂
@@rachelkristine4669 biden gave his son access to the classified material he had in his 3 residences, when he was VP and not president, and his son used the information in that material to financially benefit in millions of dollars from the Chinese and Ukranians. There is no evidence that Trump, who was PRESIDENT stole documents and he had the authority to declassify documents which biden did not have as VP. As to ex VP to Trump - mike pence - I have no clue about the backstabber because the docs were of no consequence.
So, "an ex President stole them"? Even though he and ONLY HE had the authority to label docs declassified, which is what he did. While a guy who was just a VP and had ZERO power to classify docs... just "left them at his house"... his office, his think tank (how oxymoronic is a Biden think tank), his beach house etc... Youre not a very bright one, are you? I often try to tell myself that people are too smart to be indoctrinated so easily by the media.... then people like you prove me wrong. Hey, Orange man bad though!! Right?
This is very normal in embassies tbh. In several cases where a war or a regime change has endangered embassies' security they have hastily tried to burn as many documents as possible. It is ridiculous that those kind of documents aren't kept only on airgapped computers woth encrypted hard drives and quick means of wiping the memory.
If he had those feelings, he should have given up citizenship and moved to the country is has a fascination with. Go go go. I wonder how much he will like it when the fantasy ends and reality sets in. Such a foolish man.
Lived in Russia and would suggest this scum/traitor (Putins phrase) must be imprisoned in a prison like Navalny. Never understood why Western spies work for Russians or Chinese in exchange for money. Standing up for ideals is one thing but no amount of money must justify people living in so called freer countries spy for authoritarian despots
sexual perversion and deviance imposed by european culture on children, is avoided by Russia which has criminalized them together with criminalizing drugs. It is a reason there are Americans who are relocating to Russia - just to save their children! Take a look at the young people in Britain - especially the native Brits. They are in a very sad situation. The first generation migrant Asians and Africans may have to save your nation from total destruction!
He's not very smart. He could have gone to the embassy and asked to be a double agent. Then you would have been paid by both sides without the risk of jail time.
This guy has no loyalty to anything except money very mercenary you have to show loyalty to your own country throw a heavy sentence at this individual.
Keep an eye out for all the Russian trolls on this one. They are losing hard on the battlefield right now so doing everything they can to weaken resolve. This guy had it coming... so does russia. Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦🇬🇧
@UNtold it's working well on the russians via their state controlled media I agree. Reality is they got pushed out of Kiev, pummeled in to withdrawal in Kherson, got routed in the North east. Lost ground it took months to capture in bhakmut in a single day, got hammered attacking Vuhledar. Had to recruit troops from prisons and buy weapons from Iran.... I mean yeah.... russia is super delusional if it thinks this is winning.
I've heard that in Putin's Russia comments on social media are regularly removed and that the state broadcaster is heavily biased. Thank god we don't have that here 😂😂😂
@Vasilevich Pavel russia is a joke. Couldn't invade the country nextdoor. Lost loads of the territory they held already and think the west should be worried. At current rate of advance would take 5000 years to reach Poland. If you really believe your countries nonsense why didn't you answer the call to sign up? Because you know what your saying is a lie or because you're just too scared?
Russia does not equal Putin and his allies. Russia doesn't deserve this. Their leadership does. Russia also contains innocent civilians and people vehemently opposed to war.
The behaviour of this "Securuiy Guard" was despicable, and the punishment does fit the crime of treason. Did he not have to pass some kind of vetting checks to get the necessary security clearance presumably required for for embassy employees. That should be investigated to prevent any further lapses of this kind.
Too light of a sentence. Both the U.K. and the U.S. need to get their “Old Sparky” operational. The only sentence appropriate for national betrayal is “The Chair”.
@@account-369 The Fascist regime of Russia thanks your pathetic contribution to the long list of subjectively and objectively wrong opinions of this comment section. But sadly your time to suck Putin's schlong is over he has grown tired of your ugly stature, take your well earnt 1 ruble and go back to the gulag, pathetic slave.
He did.. Serbian russia border is u tilč elba river...... Berlin is in russia again soon its our city.. So you kalifatist jew nazi trash can get the 3 fuck West from elba 3iver if you r luckey. From serbiqn
NO, when you live in a country that is no longer yours, is attacking you for being white, straight, or male. When foreign criminals off a boat get treated better than your elderly parents. It's not hard to understand why there are so many who hate the country.
How could he do this to British people? His action is punishable at every level. I'm sure he was well aware of what he was doing. This really upset me 💔
@thomasoreilly6358 it's a country I called home if you wanna know. Anything that hindered the interest of this country and her people hindered me as well. It's my country -- her enemies are my enemies, her friends are my friends, and her interests are my interests.
007 from down the pub, balding, badly dressed, divorced and bitter! Probably drives a Toyota Corolla minus gadgets and central locking. Not exactly a lady-killer is he? Daniel Craig is probably sat on the loo laughing his head off!
He should have got life. If a shoplifter steals on different days they get different sentences added together. I would have done him for each action for each day. 16 years isnt too bad. We could have strung him up. He got off easy.
Not British myself, but as a man of law, besides the disgust for this citizen of yours, I like how the proceedings were taken. Similar to Romanian law you have some key aspects that must be taken into consideration like small details for the infraction commited, as in the actions themselves, the prejudices that followed, the various degrees of culpability and their calculation, the aggravating circumstances, the distinct consideration and treatment for each count of the charges. We don not have concurrent vs consecutive punishments in our law, but this was an exciting case to observe its application. Unfortunately, the judge doesn't go into too much detail here, but the small information that is showed is a nice conclusion to a probably very nice judgement. I would have loved to see the debates before the sentencing.
This is a serous issue for the uk and all of the eu and nato countries because we share information all the time this guy should be banned from entering any western allied country apart from the uk
@@jimbell122 agreed. Hopefully the judge, in the final sentence, also removes some of his rights (ex travel, getting elected rights, get close to some places, etc) for a period of time (here the max period is 5 years for additional punishment). For serious infractions against the state, like this one, I’m sure other secondary obligations apply after sentencing, depending on the state it was commited in.
@@tealsquare To an American, your comment makes no sense. Your prejudice is factually unsubstantiated in Ifrim's comments. I'll not waste time explaining why. You may research yourself if you are interested in learning.
Gross negligence or gross incompetence, either way standards have fallen. Too much information was allowed for too long to leak, it is as if this behavior was encouraged; perhaps. This man is going to die in prison taking into account his age and while the sentence may seem light, it may as well been a life sentence.
It also shows the Berlin employees should not have left documents available to see, ie not locked away, they too should be reprimanded for that security risk.
I always wondered about this when pondering the workings of embassies. I just thought that everyone from the cleaners, security guards, admin staff must be heavily monitored. It would make sense if they were. Also one must presume that the employees who go to work everyday must be followed by spies when they go to/leave work so they must know who they are - obviously they won’t know exactly what they do inside the embassy but they are monitored by foreign spies. I just always assumed they must know it has a level of danger and lack of privacy attached.
@@afosop There is a ratio of people with moral values over people with adaptable moral value. I think that this ratio has been getting lower in the past years.
why would you allow private mobile phones to be used by security guards and give them access to embassy offices during the night? (ever heard of cctv instead of security guards?) British government has to be held accountable for their stupidity.
Was a background check not taken at the time of his employment. Even I got a background check before my workplace accepted me and were happy I had no criminal charges.
1:19 I can't believe he said "anti-Western". Do I have too high expectations that a judge in the most formal situation shall not use such a political terminology? Sounded extremely unprofessional to me.
They should send him to fight for his beloved Russian’s regime. Right to the front lines. Where he could truly feel Putin’s love as he is used as a cannon fodder.
Not only did he earn thousands possibly million selling the secrets , we’re now gonna keep and feed him four square meals a day , and of the jail term he’ll only serve half of it and enjoy a great retirement somewhere, who says crime doesn’t pay , C’mon let’s be honest , this’s justice for the corrupt and no one else , the system is broken and corrupt beyond repair .
He should be sent to Guantanamo bay, ensuring he turns senile and fry his brains until all secret intel he has configured in his memory.... Is no more!
Idk, the guy seems old enough that he might die in prison. And there's always the chance that some patriotic Brit decides to shank him up or something for his treason
If you are considered leverage you are worth your weight in gold, but when you stop being "leverage" you are just a useless husk on a battlefield, or a prison.
I have been to the East German British Embassy in the 80s for a visa which was located in East Berlin at Unter den Linden 32-34, but officially it was only responsible for the GDR without East Berlin. West Berlin needed a German visa.
You have to take the good and the bad. English and Welsh laws are hardly ever simple and they have to take into account many different circumstances. Remember in this country the law is the constitution, which get amended by law anyway, so it's a rather unusual situation as you allude to.
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Treason is a serious crime and should be met with equally serious consequences.
In the past they would've hung, drawn, & quartered scum like him, but my guess is that once released from prison he'll mysteriously have a fatal accident!
Indeed. King Edward knew EXACTLY what to do with clowns like this! 😏 Instead, we are stuck with King Charles the 3rd! 😆
Yep. His Treasonous acts likely caused the deaths of hundreds, or perhaps thousands, of people. Such Treason should have the Penalty of Death. Period.
Yeah we waiting for Tony Blairs arrest for war crimes in Iraq .Or Prince Andrew for raping underage girls on Epstein Island
Especially now.
13 years for a former death penalty offence is a joke, should be life imprisonment without parole
Watch as he only serves 5-6 years. The justice system is broken.
@@RyanE01 Russian bot lmao
Smith's 13-year sentence is, I suspect, the least of his concerns.
@@jesseroberts1041 your a english dick and?
@@mrthai-rg9nv Lmao. Imagine caring about where people are born from and thinking it makes you better than others 😂 every country including yours and mine is shit. Thinking otherwise makes you a human not even worth talking to
How can it be that for spying he only gets 14 years for such a serious crime?
He's 58 years old. This is essentially a (fully deserved) life sentence.
They predicted he will die in 14 years
Perhaps a clear desk policy would help? This embassy was sloppily run, negligence by management
No CCTV anywhere. CCTV is in almost every public space and places of work, but for a place which handles top secret documents, they see it as unnecessary.
@@Andrew-rc3vh CCTV can be hacked
@@jacobjohnson4785 So can top secret documents left on desks overnight! What clueless twits.
The Embassy 's secret documents should have been kept in a locked safe
He thought he was evading all internal surveillance. But little did he know that the "friendly colleagues" he would greet each morning when clocking-in at work, were also playing along!
He may have been 'useful' for 'selling' misinformation to Russia.
Traitor
Just 13yrs? Traitors should serve life sentences.
He deserves the Death Penalty!
Why? You'd applaud the same behavior if it was a Russian spying for us.
How long is life sentence in the UK? When is the earliest possible release?
Sorry for asking. I think in Germany the maximum is 25 years, except when a high danger for society beyond the sentence is assessed.
@Mr lerm it’s Germany
He's a bit older so he might not even live through his sentence, not to mention that he might get murked in prison because there's always someone that's more patriotic than reasonable
Two remarks: There must be something wrong with the vetting/ issuing/ updating security clearance protocol at the Foreign Office, and there must be something very wrong with the compartmentalization protocol at the embassy if a locally hired security guard is caught only after so many years in service.
I mean it's not like people write "I'm a spy" on their CV. The entire point is to find people who would likely never be suspected.
it shows how UK is safe now
I can tell you that the vetting is more relaxed for white counter parts than it is for people of colour. We as people of colour go through discrimination not only in the recruitment process but also in the vetting.
All of these comments r ppl working for Russia. What’s wrong is Russia, Russian trolls, and the greedy ppl in the West willing to harm their own countries for money.
@@MsWatchdog bit of a sweeping statement, are you sure you're not seeing racism due to skin colour, where perhaps it's greater vetting based on ethnic origin. For example, I imagine people with ethnic origins to Russia, china, Iraq, Iran, North Korea etc etc, would (and should) be vetted with even greater scrutiny when employed into the British government, compared to British citizens of several generations.
If you assume racism everywhere, you'll see it everywhere. True racism is rare in the developed world, and suggesting it so sweepingly dilutes how disgusting the true act is
That Sting operation was brilliant
A great musician and WCW Legend protects our homeland now. It doesn't get any better.
👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 He deserves a much more serious sentence.
That insane man even supported the stupid Donbas separatists, who, together with the Russian authorities, tried to make their territory Russian in 2014, just like it happened with Crimea during the same year. I was born in Russia and in 2014 still lived there, but even I didn't support the Crimean annexation and the insane Donbas separatists. This former embassy employee is really sinister.
Glad you got out
@@bearsagainstevil I'm really glad too
There IS a SOLUTION to the Russian speaking Separatists in the Donbas when this war is OVER! Since they want to be part of Russia and want to speak Russian, DEPORT ALL of them to Russia! Problem SOLVED!
Donbas separatists have every right to want to separate. You're a hypocrite who'd be applauding this man if he'd just happened to be a Russian spying for us.
Glory to the Heroes 💙💛🌻🇺🇦
Glory to Ukraine 💙💛🌻🇺🇦
Secret documents were just left on the desks? ...wow
Ikr?! And here in the "colonies" , we have 1 President that had doc in his house, an ex President who just flat out STOLE them & who the hell knows about his Ex VP! 🤣😂
@@rachelkristine4669 biden gave his son access to the classified material he had in his 3 residences, when he was VP and not president, and his son used the information in that material to financially benefit in millions of dollars from the Chinese and Ukranians.
There is no evidence that Trump, who was PRESIDENT stole documents and he had the authority to declassify documents which biden did not have as VP.
As to ex VP to Trump - mike pence - I have no clue about the backstabber because the docs were of no consequence.
So, "an ex President stole them"? Even though he and ONLY HE had the authority to label docs declassified, which is what he did. While a guy who was just a VP and had ZERO power to classify docs... just "left them at his house"... his office, his think tank (how oxymoronic is a Biden think tank), his beach house etc... Youre not a very bright one, are you? I often try to tell myself that people are too smart to be indoctrinated so easily by the media.... then people like you prove me wrong. Hey, Orange man bad though!! Right?
This is very normal in embassies tbh. In several cases where a war or a regime change has endangered embassies' security they have hastily tried to burn as many documents as possible.
It is ridiculous that those kind of documents aren't kept only on airgapped computers woth encrypted hard drives and quick means of wiping the memory.
In Australia the Federal Police photograph documents left on desks in Australian Government offices and the responsible person is disciplined.
If he had those feelings, he should have given up citizenship and moved to the country is has a fascination with. Go go go. I wonder how much he will like it when the fantasy ends and reality sets in. Such a foolish man.
Lived in Russia and would suggest this scum/traitor (Putins phrase) must be imprisoned in a prison like Navalny. Never understood why Western spies work for Russians or Chinese in exchange for money. Standing up for ideals is one thing but no amount of money must justify people living in so called freer countries spy for authoritarian despots
Now this scum pleads mental health issues
I'm surprised he didn't fly out of the window 😆
sexual perversion and deviance imposed by european culture on children, is avoided by Russia which has criminalized them together with criminalizing drugs. It is a reason there are Americans who are relocating to Russia - just to save their children!
Take a look at the young people in Britain - especially the native Brits. They are in a very sad situation. The first generation migrant Asians and Africans may have to save your nation from total destruction!
When he gets out, deport him to Russia. He’ll like it there…
What a light sentence to a traitor who imperilled his country in exchange for money. You’re a shame to your family!
He's not very smart. He could have gone to the embassy and asked to be a double agent. Then you would have been paid by both sides without the risk of jail time.
This guy has no loyalty to anything except money very mercenary you have to show loyalty to your own country throw a heavy sentence at this individual.
They need to toughen the law. So, that people can get life in prison for things like that.
Keep an eye out for all the Russian trolls on this one. They are losing hard on the battlefield right now so doing everything they can to weaken resolve. This guy had it coming... so does russia. Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦🇬🇧
@UNtold it's working well on the russians via their state controlled media I agree.
Reality is they got pushed out of Kiev, pummeled in to withdrawal in Kherson, got routed in the North east. Lost ground it took months to capture in bhakmut in a single day, got hammered attacking Vuhledar. Had to recruit troops from prisons and buy weapons from Iran.... I mean yeah.... russia is super delusional if it thinks this is winning.
oh the keyboard warriors, trying to win a war in RUclips, Instagram and reddit...trolls themselves
I've heard that in Putin's Russia comments on social media are regularly removed and that the state broadcaster is heavily biased. Thank god we don't have that here 😂😂😂
@Vasilevich Pavel russia is a joke. Couldn't invade the country nextdoor. Lost loads of the territory they held already and think the west should be worried. At current rate of advance would take 5000 years to reach Poland.
If you really believe your countries nonsense why didn't you answer the call to sign up? Because you know what your saying is a lie or because you're just too scared?
Russia does not equal Putin and his allies. Russia doesn't deserve this. Their leadership does. Russia also contains innocent civilians and people vehemently opposed to war.
The behaviour of this "Securuiy Guard" was despicable, and the punishment does fit the crime of treason. Did he not have to pass some kind of vetting checks to get the necessary security clearance presumably required for for embassy employees. That should be investigated to prevent any further lapses of this kind.
He won't be the only one that is for certain
Well… and Russians passing information to others as well! That always existed and it always will
Should have thrown away the key.
Too light of a sentence. Both the U.K. and the U.S. need to get their “Old Sparky” operational. The only sentence appropriate for national betrayal is “The Chair”.
If he loves Russia so much, why not just immigrate there?
Couldn't agree more, can't think of a worse punishment, and is far more likely to actually change his foolish mindset
You didn't give hom that option did yo ?
@@account-369 The Fascist regime of Russia thanks your pathetic contribution to the long list of subjectively and objectively wrong opinions of this comment section. But sadly your time to suck Putin's schlong is over he has grown tired of your ugly stature, take your well earnt 1 ruble and go back to the gulag, pathetic slave.
Because this way he also gets a load of money from the Russians.
He did.. Serbian russia border is u tilč elba river...... Berlin is in russia again soon its our city.. So you kalifatist jew nazi trash can get the 3 fuck West from elba 3iver if you r luckey. From serbiqn
The spy that made me cry..
Only 14 years in prison for this treason!!!
14 years? FF sake, that’s less than grub dealers get 😮
All these russian bots spamming quotes said by Americans 😂
I know right?
NO, when you live in a country that is no longer yours, is attacking you for being white, straight, or male. When foreign criminals off a boat get treated better than your elderly parents. It's not hard to understand why there are so many who hate the country.
all the english thinking they can win a war against russian , lmaooooooo
@@mrthai-rg9nv I'm English and We don't want a war the media and politicians want war not us citizens
They have been stuck with the same psychotic midget clown for more than 20 years and they dare talk about rebellion. Ok whatever....🤷🏼♂.
How could he do this to British people?
His action is punishable at every level. I'm sure he was well aware of what he was doing.
This really upset me 💔
why did it upset you....really.
For money
@thomasoreilly6358 it's a country I called home if you wanna know. Anything that hindered the interest of this country and her people hindered me as well. It's my country -- her enemies are my enemies, her friends are my friends, and her interests are my interests.
Just a far lefty, like a lot of our Labour MP's and their supporters.
@@peterblake5977 I fully agree with you.He absolutely supports JC I bet
Silly man, a heavy punishment for traitor!
This is very serious with regard to serious situations of security espionage will not be accepted here in the UK GB
Jail with him!!!!
Damn this guy thought he was 007 lol😂
Yeah but that number was designated for his I.Q.
007 from down the pub, balding, badly dressed, divorced and bitter! Probably drives a Toyota Corolla minus gadgets and central locking. Not exactly a lady-killer is he? Daniel Craig is probably sat on the loo laughing his head off!
hhhha
But acted like Johnny English 😂
He'll be telling all his stories in prison daily.
He should have got life. If a shoplifter steals on different days they get different sentences added together. I would have done him for each action for each day. 16 years isnt too bad. We could have strung him up. He got off easy.
He should have stored his stolen secret info in his garage next to his corvette.
Good Job Britts
Not British myself, but as a man of law, besides the disgust for this citizen of yours, I like how the proceedings were taken. Similar to Romanian law you have some key aspects that must be taken into consideration like small details for the infraction commited, as in the actions themselves, the prejudices that followed, the various degrees of culpability and their calculation, the aggravating circumstances, the distinct consideration and treatment for each count of the charges. We don not have concurrent vs consecutive punishments in our law, but this was an exciting case to observe its application. Unfortunately, the judge doesn't go into too much detail here, but the small information that is showed is a nice conclusion to a probably very nice judgement. I would have loved to see the debates before the sentencing.
This is a serous issue for the uk and all of the eu and nato countries because we share information all the time this guy should be banned from entering any western allied country apart from the uk
@@jimbell122 agreed. Hopefully the judge, in the final sentence, also removes some of his rights (ex travel, getting elected rights, get close to some places, etc) for a period of time (here the max period is 5 years for additional punishment). For serious infractions against the state, like this one, I’m sure other secondary obligations apply after sentencing, depending on the state it was commited in.
@@ifrimvlad tell me you are American without telling me you are American
@@tealsquare Well, I am actually Romanian.
@@tealsquare To an American, your comment makes no sense. Your prejudice is factually unsubstantiated in Ifrim's comments. I'll not waste time explaining why. You may research yourself if you are interested in learning.
He needs to be treated like a traitor and given a traitor's 💀 like what happened to Katherine Howard
UK: "The Spy Who Don't Love Me"
Dude gave the British Embassy a reverse James Bond 007 🤣.
He was paid by "MONEY PUTIN"
The embassies of Germany and Russia should have been allowed to monitor the dissident’s trial.
Gross negligence or gross incompetence, either way standards have fallen. Too much information was allowed for too long to leak, it is as if this behavior was encouraged; perhaps. This man is going to die in prison taking into account his age and while the sentence may seem light, it may as well been a life sentence.
sad
This is very bad of him.
Many saying 13 years isn't long enough, but given his crime I think he will receive further punishment in jail. Not gonna be a popular inmate!!!!
I hope he shares a cell with a big Ukrainian gentleman.
Lock him up, quick court case.
Don't want time.
Child molestering or attempted rape would be a serious crime too?
It also shows the Berlin employees should not have left documents available to see, ie not locked away, they too should be reprimanded for that security risk.
I always wondered about this when pondering the workings of embassies. I just thought that everyone from the cleaners, security guards, admin staff must be heavily monitored. It would make sense if they were. Also one must presume that the employees who go to work everyday must be followed by spies when they go to/leave work so they must know who they are - obviously they won’t know exactly what they do inside the embassy but they are monitored by foreign spies. I just always assumed they must know it has a level of danger and lack of privacy attached.
I thought stuff like that only happened in movies.
People doing the SIA course, now it’s compulsory for them to study Russian 😂😂😂
British are too " donkeys " to learn any language....the only two words they can say is " coke " or " weed "
good job Smith the legacy of heros cant go unnoticed heroes are always heroes ande will remaqin heroes
if wed go by those standards how many subversive actions are currently probably attributable to Us and Uk espionage activity?
How can a security guard collect sensitive documents of the embassy? Perhaps someone gave him the access to? Other people/colleagues must be involved
He has access as he was an employee of the embassy
If you listened the video stated he sneaked in at night.
Didn't know we had secrets left,
Yeah I thought Boris Johnson already gave them up to his Russian friends!
A similar story is the British pilots that accepted money to train Chinese pilots.
The root cause is the decay in moral value in the UK.
Did it ever existed?
@@afosop There is a ratio of people with moral values over people with adaptable moral value.
I think that this ratio has been getting lower in the past years.
And the lack of pay and respect for an extremely dangerous job.
@@peterblake5977 A security guard at an embassy is not a dangerous job!! Stop supporting a traitor !!
I feel like I'm watching sumtin idk maybe a parody anyways is his hair real 😂 very delightful you say
Lock him up
why would you allow private mobile phones to be used by security guards and give them access to embassy offices during the night? (ever heard of cctv instead of security guards?) British government has to be held accountable for their stupidity.
Damn! Where’s the rest? . . .
Betrays his country for £800. SMH.
Nah it was €800
@@ltobito349 🤔
Should have got 100 years
I like how this just acknowledges that embassies are just hubs for espionage.
especially in Berlin
To all double agents fish and chips. WHAT TOOK YOU SO LONG - ROBERT HANSSEN
Was a background check not taken at the time of his employment. Even I got a background check before my workplace accepted me and were happy I had no criminal charges.
Yet Boris gets away scot free!
He ought to be allowed to face the standard sentencing of his country of choice. It's the only fair and merciful thing to do...
😨
They will have to verify that there are no others.
14 years no way life
Wow, that's not a wise move. when someone put their trust in you don't do that.
Only 13+ years??? It should be at least 30 years!
He was a fierce critic of the regime in England.
Still no reason to betray your fellow citizens, your family, your friends and your country.
He’s a good man, I hope many of him are born to stop this blind fallowing
Never underestimate the susceptibility of disaffected people from toxic backgrounds to confuse Kool-Aid with the elixir of life.
I thought it was gonna be Mick Lynch for a second lol.
He might have been prosecuted for Treason for which the penalty is a mandatory one of life Imprisonment. Just a thought.
This is an easy to digest example of essay writing for us learning English as a second language. 😂
Yeagh it was very very long but it held my attention. He was very elquent in his speech.
Yeagh it was very very long but it held my attention. He was very elquent in his speech.
Yes it was beautiful English and well spoken.
Where’s the independent international investigation?
Why are a lot of people here are not taking this seriously? Stick to the topic
Not to worry. After the lawyers get their reward, he'll be out after 18 months for 'good behaviour'.
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I can't believe he said "anti-Western". Do I have too high expectations that a judge in the most formal situation shall not use such a political terminology? Sounded extremely unprofessional to me.
They should send him to fight for his beloved Russian’s regime. Right to the front lines. Where he could truly feel Putin’s love as he is used as a cannon fodder.
Where are you from ?
Not only did he earn thousands possibly million selling the secrets , we’re now gonna keep and feed him four square meals a day , and of the jail term he’ll only serve half of it and enjoy a great retirement somewhere, who says crime doesn’t pay , C’mon let’s be honest , this’s justice for the corrupt and no one else , the system is broken and corrupt beyond repair .
He should be sent to Guantanamo bay, ensuring he turns senile and fry his brains until all secret intel he has configured in his memory.... Is no more!
He deserves solitary.
Idk, the guy seems old enough that he might die in prison. And there's always the chance that some patriotic Brit decides to shank him up or something for his treason
England is paying the cost of betraying Scotland with Brexit.
If I were Scottish, I'd do the same.
Thats great. Now kindly fuck off to whatever country you want to be treacherous to.
Right because all that disagree miss die , wow!
He was giving favor to the Britons.
If you are considered leverage you are worth your weight in gold, but when you stop being "leverage" you are just a useless husk on a battlefield, or a prison.
Exactly and its about all embassies and consulats kgb rf regim agent cells
I have been to the East German British Embassy in the 80s for a visa which was located in East Berlin at Unter den Linden 32-34, but officially it was only responsible for the GDR without East Berlin. West Berlin needed a German visa.
Sorry but no one cares you were there😅
Joke of a sentence. Bring back death penalty for traitors
west has gone soft, only 14 years for trader of this scale?
Not afforded guarantees for a fair trial
Death penalty should still apply for this.
1) A Scots bloke that hated England.
2) Worked in a shed guarding the car park.
Isn't he fortunate that this was not the reverse and he had betrayed Russia?
am I to believe that clasified documents are left lying on desks overnight ? whilst the staff had gone home .
You haven't actually watched the video, have you?
@@oldbloke135 he was a security guard. not a member of staff
Documents which probably triggered the war.
Ex RAF as I understand it as well! Should get Life ! Cat A👍🏻
I would ask for additional year if the dude with the wig would just get on with the sentence and cut all the yammering.
Jesus Christ this embassy's security was lax. As a bookkeeper in training we are taught to keep things under lock and key.
What a donut - probably wrote to them when he was pissed and that was his sentence
he`ll be 70 something when he is out of prison, still there are sometime to begin his life anew
Thank you for your service comrade, the motherland will not forget your exploits and your sacrifices!!!💂♂🥷💂♀
Only 9 years???
Where's Harry Palmer when you need him??
Struggling to heat or eat I suspect!
Because he thought his country was wrong and he sided with Russia!
The British legal system sure is a strange one...
You have to take the good and the bad. English and Welsh laws are hardly ever simple and they have to take into account many different circumstances. Remember in this country the law is the constitution, which get amended by law anyway, so it's a rather unusual situation as you allude to.
So... has that messed up his pension?
He got his just deserts