James Bond fantasist jailed for 7 years in UK for trying to spy for Russia

A British man who would "dream about being like James Bond" was jailed Friday for seven years after trying to spy for Russia. Howard Phillips, 65, was found guilty in July for trying to pass information about former Defense Secretary Grant Shapps, whom he knew, to two men who he believed were Russian intelligence agents. “You were prepared to betray your country for money,” Justice Bobbie Cheema-Grubb told Phillips at his sentencing hearing at Winchester Crown Court, in the south of England.