Laken P was 17 when he travelled to Ukraine on the promise of work with a humanitarian organization. But the offer, posted on the Telegram app, was bogus and he was met instead by Russian agents who threatened him and his family if he refused to obey them.

He was ordered to gather information on Polish military capabilities but instead turned himself in out of fear for his life.

In late May, police were called to a disturbance at a Warsaw hotel, where Laken P drunkenly declared he was working for Russian intelligence and wanted to hand himself in and tell the authorities everything.

He was convicted in December for espionage between April and May last year, but the court took his actions into account, along with his readiness to cooperate with the authorities, and granted him “extraordinary clemency.”

He was sentenced to eight months in prison, seven of which he had already spent on remand.

As a result, he will only spend one more month behind bars.