Interviews with the Sunday Mail show Mark setting out the basis of his claim. He states that he has been having suicidal thoughts and that his former employees did not maintain the schedule of psychological counseling during the period of his undercover operation not since pulling him out.

He attempts to paints a picture of having had to operate in an environment full of dangerous social misfits who lived in squalor and filth, fucked anything that moved, ate from bins and took drugs. Of course he claims never to have taken any drugs and to have remained dedicated to his duty the whole time. He also denies a string of sexual relationship, claiming to have only had sex with two of the activists he was spying on during his seven year undercover operation.

The claim against the state will seek damages amounting to several hundred thousand pounds.