Sir John Goldring’s investigation examined how MI5 gave false evidence to three courts about having kept to its core secrecy policy - known as ‘neither confirm nor deny’ (NCND) - about the agent status of the violent neo-Nazi informant.
He coercively controlled his partner, known by the alias Beth, and attacked her with a machete. MI5 then helped him go abroad to continue intelligence work while he was under police investigation.
The government took the BBC to court in 2022 in a failed attempt to block our investigation into Agent X, but won him legal anonymity. Beth then sued MI5 at the Investigatory Powers Tribunal, and in 2024 she sought a review of a ruling at the High Court.
MI5 claimed to all three courts it had maintained NCND and, consequently, the courts allowed it to keep information secret from Beth and everyone else, leaving her at a serious disadvantage.
But what MI5 said was untrue. It had in fact disclosed the man’s agent status in phone calls to me, as it tried to persuade me not to investigate him in 2020.
A senior MI5 officer had tried to cover up for the man, falsely saying he was not an abusive misogynist nor a real extremist. He even wanted me to meet the agent. In doing so, he repeatedly departed from the NCND policy.
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