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 with ...

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 Service ...

The Investigatory Powers Tribunal has heard that MI5 conceded unlawfully obtaining communications data twice.

The watchdog charged with holding MI5 to account rewrote a report into the handling of a violent neo-Nazi agent after the Security Service gave it false information, the BBC can reveal. An early draft ...

MI5 has offered an “unreserved” apology to the High Court saying there had been “failings and errors” in legal proceedings related to an alleged source accused of abusing two women. An injunction was ...

British intelligence agency MI5 had an office at BBC headquarters in London that was used to vet all journalists, a snooping tribunal has been told. The claim is made in a submission to the ...

Former Northern Ireland correspondent Vincent Kearney subjected to ‘unprecedented’ surveillance, says lawyer Police and MI5 subjected a BBC journalist to a “long and consistent campaign of unlawful ...

A man who left a fake stick of dynamite outside the headquarters of MI5 has been found guilty of carrying out a bomb hoax. Brazilian national Julian Valente Pereira, 32, staged the protest at Thames ...

The tribunal was also told that the PSNI had made a “detailed profile” of the journalist, including his date of birth, addresses, car details, phone numbers and the names of his wife and mother-in-law ...