Former U.K. intelligence worker confesses to attempted murder of NSA employee

A former British intelligence worker confessed Wednesday to the attempted murder of a U.S. National Security Agency employee who had worked at the same base as him in western England, British news agencies reported.

Joshua Bowles, 29, pleaded guilty to trying to kill the woman, referred to in court only as 99230, with two knives outside a Cheltenham community center three miles from their base on March 9, according to the BBC and the U.K.'s Press Agency.

The woman's nationality has not been confirmed, but The Guardian newspaper and at least one other British outlet reported that she was a U.S. citizen.