British spy agency MI5 has apologized to the BBC. The unprecedented situation arose after MI5 was forced to say sorry to three courts for lying about a neo-Nazi agent who attacked his girlfriend ...

The head of MI5 has serious questions to answer about his support for an agent accused of far-Right extremism and violence against women, according to a lawyer representing one of the victims.

MI5 lied to three courts while defending its handling of a misogynistic neo-Nazi state agent who attacked his girlfriend with a machete, the BBC can reveal. Arguing for secrecy, the Security ...

Spies lie, but they are not meant to get caught. On a wet Friday evening in December, three MI5 lawyers sat in a room at the BBC's headquarters in London. On the other side of the table were the ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. MI5 has admitted it provided “incorrect information” to the English courts in a case concerning an ...

MI5 has apologised for its “serious error” in covering for agent ‘X’, who violently “terrorised his partner”. The latter’s lawyer, meanwhile, said: I think this raises real concerns ...

MI5 has issued an "unreserved apology" after a court was misled in a bid to stop a suspected Security Service informant from being identified. The High Court was “misled” by false information ...

At a hearing today, the court in London heard that part of written evidence provided by MI5, reported to be from a deputy director in the Security Service, was false. Jude Bunting KC, for the BBC ...

The head of MI5 is under pressure after the Security Service was forced to apologise for lying to try to stop the BBC from unmasking one of its agents as a neo-Nazi. Sir Ken McCallum personally ...

The High Court was ‘misled’ by false information from MI5 during the Attorney General’s bid to prevent the BBC from identifying a suspected Security Service informant, a judge has been told ...