good evening. a woman who was terrorised and abused by an mi5 agent is taking legal action against the security service. the woman, who we are calling beth, has lodged a formal complaint with the watchdog for the intelligence services, after a bbc investigation revealed that her then partner used his security status as a means of controlling her. the agent, whom the high court ruled cannot be named, also attacked the woman with a machete and threatened to kill her. 0ur correspondent daniel de simone reports. a violent mi5 agent who used his position to abuse. ultimately this position within the security services was used to terrorise me. last night, we revealed how the state informant attacked his girlfriend beth with a machete and threatened to kill her. the foreign agent a right wing extremist with a long history of abusing women can t be named because the government obtained a court order keeping his identity secret. he attacked his british partner before leaving the uk wh