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

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.

It comes just days after the security service apologised for providing ‘incorrect information’ to the High Court in 2022 when the Attorney General tried to prevent the BBC from identifying the ‘misogynistic neo-Nazi’ agent who reportedly attacked his girlfriend with a machete.

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.

In 2022, then-Attorney General Suella Braverman went to the High Court to stop the BBC airing a programme that would name a man who has allegedly abused two women and is a covert human intelligence so

At a hearing today, the High Court heard that MI5 provided false evidence in a 2022 case to prevent the BBC from identifying a suspected Secret Service informant. The man was the subject of a programme from the broadcaster which alleged he was a neo-Nazi who abused two woman, attacking one with a machete.

The Security Service gambled BBC correspondent Daniel De Simone had no evidence. A note, an email and a recording proved it wrong.

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.