'Russian spy' drops off USB stick with sensitive details about Grant Shapps

The moment an alleged Russian spy dropped off a USB stick in a plot to leak sensitive information about Grant Shapps has been shown in court.Howard Phillips, 65, from Harlow in Essex, is on trial over allegedly intending to assist the Russian Intelligence Service by helping people he believed were agents working for Moscow .He was charged with assisting a foreign intelligence service after allegedly passing a USB stick containing details relating to Shapps, including his home address and the location of his private jet to undercover officers, who prosecutors say he believed to be Russian spies.Newly revealed CCTV footage shows Phillips checking into a Hilton Hotel in London on behalf of who he was told was a senior Russian Intelligence Service officer.