LONDON -- Melita Norwood, the 87-year-old British great-grandmother who admitted spying for the Soviet Union during the Cold War, will not face prosecution, legal authorities said Monday.
Norwood admitted in September that she passed secrets to Moscow while working in Britain's atomic arms program after World War II.A senior government law officer, Solicitor General Ross Cranston, also said cases of four other alleged spies revealed in the so-called Mitrokhin archive -- secret KGB papers smuggled out of Moscow and published earlier this year -- would not be pursued.
Revelations about Norwood, who now lives in a three-bedroom house in a London suburb, gripped Britain as she admitted to her spying past but continued her life of working in her garden and producing homemade jam.