"My colleague who was sitting next to me was killed, and my wife was injured. In 2010 they attacked me again, on the road between Cauca and Cali.
In fact, MI5 had disclosed X's status in phone calls to me, which I had made notes of and recorded, as the Security Service tried to persuade me to drop my investigation.MI5's false claim was repeated in two other courts considering a legal claim against the Security Service by X's former girlfriend, known publicly as "Beth".
During hearings in recent weeks, Mr Justice Chamberlain raised the new concerns regarding MI5's account of how it came to give the false evidence.These concerns centred on accounts of the two investigations launched after the BBC exposed MI5's false claims in February this year - an internal one, and an external review by the government's former chief lawyer Sir Jonathan Jones KC, commissioned by Home Secretary Yvette Cooper.In April, the court and the BBC were provided with a witness statement by the very senior MI5 officer - known as Witness B - purporting to summarise the investigations. They were also given an open, non-secret version of Sir Jonathan's external review.
Although the court can receive sensitive information - and had security-cleared barristers, known as special advocates, acting on behalf of the BBC - it was not given a secret, closed version of the external review, nor a copy of the internal investigation report and its underlying documents.After a request by the special advocates, Mr Justice Chamberlain made clear he wanted disclosure of the closed version of the external review. During a later hearing he ordered that MI5 also hand over the internal investigation report described by Witness B, as well as policy documents and interview notes with MI5 officers.
He also raised concerns about whether the open, non-secret documents originally provided to the court and the BBC were an accurate reflection of the closed versions.
He said Witness B had claimed the original open version of the report was a "fair and accurate" reflection of the closed version. But, having read the closed report, Mr Justice Chamberlain gave his provisional view that:Cogat said thousands of patients and escorts had gone to countries, including Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, the US and others. The statement said that "the ongoing hostilities in the Gaza Strip pose a challenge to the implementation of these evacuation operations."
Israel broke the last ceasefire in March launching a wave of attacks on what it said were Hamas positions.Gaza remains a claustrophobic zone of hunger and death for its residents. Those who get out for medical treatment are the exception.
According to the UN the population of 2.1 million is facing the risk of famine. The organisation's head of humanitarian affairs, Tom Fletcher, has appealed to the UN Security Council to act to "prevent genocide" in Gaza.These are strong words for a man trained in the sober traditions of the British Foreign Office and who has served as an ambassador and senior government advisor.