MI5 has apologized for providing false evidence after settling a woman’s claim over abuse by an informant
The UK’s domestic intelligence agency, MI5, has agreed to compensate a woman abused by a neo-Nazi informant, admitting “mistakes” that prolonged her legal battle.
The woman, a British citizen known as ‘Beth’, was in a relationship with a man identified only as Agent X, a foreign national recruited by MI5 to infiltrate right-wing extremist networks. Video footage obtained by the BBC in an investigation published several years ago showed X attacking Beth with a machete, threatening to kill her, and using his intelligence service status as a tool of coercive control.
Beth previously told investigators that Agent X had boasted about his MI5 connections, warning her she could not report his violence because “he had men in high places who always had his back.” She claimed he sexually assaulted her, collected weapons, and forced her to watch videos of executions.
The case sparked a wider scandal after the BBC reported that MI5 had provided false evidence to three courts while defending its handling of the agent. The security service had claimed it adhered to its policy of neither confirming nor denying informants’ identities, despite senior officers having disclosed the man’s status to journalists in 2020 in an attempt to persuade the BBC to drop its investigation.
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