MI6 sent a highly vulnerable agent to a jihadist training camp in Pakistan before he returned to the UK and murdered his child, it emerged on Sunday.

The man, who at the time was in his 20s, was sent overseas on a spying mission despite a vetting report assessing his emotional instability as “the highest it is possible to score”.

According to the Sunday Times, the leaked document showed that the MI6 recruit “had more in common with a psychotic person than an average member of the population” and was at risk of “severe shock and trauma”.

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He had previously worked for MI5 but was then passed to MI6 who sent him to a village in Waziristan, on Pakistan’s border with Afghanistan, to infiltrate Taliban and al-Qaeda terrorists who had fled there after 9/11.

Read more: The Telegraph