London: The Sunday Times reported that an MI6 agent in the UK killed his own child after returning traumatised from a mission inside a terrorist training facility in Pakistan.

The British intelligence agent, who was in his 20s at the time, was dispatched on the covert mission to infiltrate Al-Qaeda and Taliban terror cells in Waziristan, which is located near the Pakistani border.

But before departing, the agent took a number of tests, the results of which revealed that his level of mental instability was "the highest it is possible to score."

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The test revealed that the recruit was "at risk of severe shock and trauma" and that they "had more in common with a psychotic person than an average member of the population."

The agent, who had experienced abuse as a child, saw a family being beheaded while he was in Waziristan, and the experience caused him to have "vivid flashbacks and violent outbursts" when he got back to Britain.

After returning home and killing his child, the man was committed to a secure mental health facility pending trial.

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His attorney claimed that he received tens of thousands of pounds for the vital information he gave MI6 while he was away. 

Liam Kotrie, the recruit's legal counsel, countered that "I believe they (MI6) got some intelligence — so for them, it was worth it." In use was he. They invested money into the situation because they believed they would gain something from it. They had a duty of care, but they neglected it, and a child died as a result.

Kotrie claimed that MI6 purposefully disregarded the recruit's mental health problems in order to gather information.

The agent was found guilty of murder after a jury trial, but his attorney is arguing that the verdict should have been changed to manslaughter.

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He was placed to work in these situations despite not being aware of his own vulnerabilities or the diagnosis of PTSD, according to the (psychological) report, which stated that he was extremely susceptible to it. Those individuals must be held accountable, according to Kotrie.

"I hope that policies will change and that there will be policies in place when someone does something terrible as a result of their work for security services that they think about the dangerous situations they put them in."