Author of Home Office China report says he was targeted with honey traps

Dr David Wilson, author of a Home Office‑sponsored report on the Chinese state and organised crime in the UK, says he was targeted by failed honey traps and a suspected attempt to compromise him by a former British police officer. His analysis was declassified in February and, he says, he faced multiple efforts to influence or discredit his work as he examined policing challenges posed by the CCP and criminal gangs.

Wilson said he had been warned during early interviews with former officers in the Hong Kong police force that he would make himself a target for 'honey traps or bribes' from the Chinese state and organised crime. 'Within about two weeks of getting this warning, I receive this phone call,' he said, describing an approach from an acquaintance who had been a Chinese citizen before naturalising in the UK and who invited him to meet at a 'specific Chinese restaurant' — an approach Wilson recognised and declined.

United Kingdom, Hong Kong

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