The woman at the centre of a case in which MI5 has admitted giving false evidence to three courts says she wants the service to give her a public apology. Beth was attacked with a machete by her former partner, a neo-Nazi misogynist who used his MI5 role to coercively control her.

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.

A woman who was allegedly abused by a suspected Security Service informant has called for an apology from MI5, it was reported. It comes after MI5 apologised unreservedly for providing “incorrect information” to the High Court in 2022 during the Attorney General’s bid to prevent the BBC from identifying an allegedly misogynistic neo-Nazi agent who reportedly attacked his girlfriend with a machete.

The woman’s demand follows MI5’s admission it gave false evidence in her human rights case.