A ruling by London's High Court cited the domestic intelligence agency's failure to explain why representatives had ...

The home secretary says the government accepts the high court’s ruling that an independent investigation should take place.

Government accepts court ruling on ‘serious failing’ by MI5 - It emerged this year that evidence given by the security agency ...

MI5's entire operational plan involved a sustained attempt to persuade me to stop doing a story by disclosing that X was an agent. Second, the report said "it was not MI5 policy to record all such ...

MI5 previously said there had been ‘failings and errors’ in legal proceedings related to an alleged source accused of abusing two women.

MI5 director general Sir Ken McCallum repeated his "full and unreserved apology for the errors made in these proceedings". He said resolving this matter was "of the highest priority for MI5" and ...

MI5 apologised for providing 'incorrect information' to the High Court while handling a misogynistic neo-Nazi agent who allegedly attacked his girlfriend with a machete.

Kincora abuse victim obtains settlement over MI5 agent claims Updated / Monday, 16 Jun 2025 12:51 Gary Hoy's legal action was resolved on confidential terms at the High Court in Belfast ...

Britain on Sunday named Blaise Metreweli, a career intelligence officer, as the first female head of the Secret Intelligence Service, the foreign spy service known as MI6.

Blaise Metreweli is currently Director General ‘Q’, responsible for technology and innovation in MI6, and has previously held a Director-level role in MI5. The first ever female Chief of the ...

A victim of abuse at Kincora Boys' Home has received an undisclosed settlement after claims a paedophile housemaster was protected from being prosecuted due to being an MI5 agent. Gary Hoy, 63 ...