the final day of the libel case between footballer s wireless rebekah vardy and coleen rooney. lawyers are set out their closing outings. and britain s biggest ever lottery winners, the couple from gloucester who ve won £181; million. it s surreal, they say. and coming up in sportsday later in the hour on the bbc news channel, a huge night for everton s players. after a difficult season they can ensure prmier league survival with a win against crystal palace. good evening. an mi5 agent used his intelligence status to terrorise and abuse women. yet his identity has been protected by the secret services. the bbc has been stopped from revealing his name after the government went to the high court. it says it is trying to protect national security and avoid a real and immediate risk to life. but the judge did rule that we can reveal details of the case in which the agent used his position to coerce and threaten to kill a former partner with a machete. the spy, who is not british
within weeks, the agent vanished and she was hospitalised due to a mental breakdown. but extremist material found in the house, including a note he wrote about killing jewish people, had already generated a a police counterterror investigation. some of beth s possessions were also seized by detectives from their home, but returned to a relative months later, in an alarming visit by an unidentified stranger. i ve established the mystery man didn t work for the police. he was, in fact, an mi5 officer. the counterterror investigation ended with mi5 being passed the evidence on their man. it was a highly unusual move by mi5, suggesting interference in a criminal inquiry. counterterror police say no criminality was identified during their inquiries but have apologised for the fact beth s possessions were not passed directly to her.
but how far back does his mistreatment of women go, and where is he now? we ve traced him to another country. after leaving the uk, while still under counterterror investigation, he began working for a foreign intelligence agency. before beth, he met ruth not her real name abroad. violence. always violence. their relationship was horrifying. he started to tell me things that no human such as swimming in a river of blood, eating children s flesh. i had to listen to this every day. he said he would be able to kill me and my daughter too. fearing for her life, she was taken to a refuge. i was psychologically broken. really broken. the women s shelter ordered an ambulance to bring me to the hospital. we found he spent years in britain using her surname to hide his real identity