MI5 court evidence based on lies, report says
The report says senior officers gave false evidence about a neo-Nazi informant, and officials are weighing contempt or criminal proceedings.
- On Thursday, the British government announced it will tighten oversight of MI5 after a tribunal found the security service misled courts regarding its ties to a neo-Nazi informant accused of attacking his partner.
- The Investigatory Powers Tribunal found MI5 repeatedly gave "a false account" to three courts, with "systemic failures" allowing false narratives to persist while officers actually disclosed details to a BBC journalist.
- Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood is taking "urgent action" to strengthen oversight, describing the tribunal's findings as "stark" and detailing "serious failings by individual MI5 officers" resulting in false evidence provided to courts.
- MI5 Director-General Ken McCallum said the agency "recognizes without hesitation the seriousness of our failings" and is working to ensure such errors never occur again.
- The agency previously faced scrutiny in similar cases, including last year's report that MI5 protected a spy within the Irish Republican Army, and an apology earlier this year regarding an informant's abusive partner.
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n1info.rsThe British government said today it would tighten controls on the work of its intelligence services after a report found that MI5 had misled the courts about its links to a neo-Nazi informant who is accused of assaulting his partner.
LONDON (AP) — The British government announced Thursday it will keep the country's spies under tighter scrutiny after a report concluded that MI5 misled the courts about its links to a neo-Nazi informant…
MI5 lied to three courts in neo-Nazi agent case, inquiry finds
Senior figures at Britain’s internal security agency MI5 lied repeatedly in court over the case of an abusive neo-Nazi agent. Deputy investigatory powers commissioner Sir John Goldring has slammed a number of senior figures at MI5 over their behaviour. As the Canary reported on 17 March 2026, the spy agency has been ordered to pay […] By Joe Glenton
MI5 lied to courts about a neo-Nazi informer: U.K. watchdog
Earlier this year MI5 apologized and paid compensation to settle a legal claim brought by a woman over her treatment by an allegedly abusive ex-partner. He was an MI5 informant, identified in court as Agent X.
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