MI5 will need proof to be believed in future, says Leveson after BBC investigation
Summary
Lord Leveson said courts are likely to require evidence before accepting future claims from MI5, after the agency gave false evidence to three courts in the case of a violent informant. He said the case prompted new rules for managing informants and changes to MI5’s evidence procedures.Key Facts
- Lord Leveson is the investigatory powers commissioner and a former Court of Appeal justice.
- An MI5 informant known as Agent X abused his partner and attacked her with a machete.
- MI5 helped Agent X travel abroad to continue intelligence work while police investigated him.
- An Investigatory Powers Commissioner's Office inquiry found serious and systemic failures in MI5's handling of the case.
- The inquiry found that one senior MI5 officer lied repeatedly and another misled colleagues and lied about what he had been told.
- MI5 accepted the inquiry's findings and apologized.
- A new policy addresses informants' domestic violence and coercive control.
- MI5 must change how it prepares and gives evidence to courts.
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