Posted on 05/02/2012 10:14:59 AM PDT by dead
LONDON (AP) — A coroner said Wednesday a British spy whose naked body was found inside a locked sports bag was likely killed in a criminal act, but acknowledged the riddle of how he met his mysterious death may never be solved.
Coroner Fiona Wilcox said it was unlikely that the demise of code breaker Gareth Williams, 31, would "ever be satisfactorily explained," despite a 21-month police inquiry, and seven days of expert evidence to an inquest hearing.
Williams worked for Britain's secret eavesdropping service GCHQ but was attached to the MI6 overseas spy agency when his remains were found in August 2010 at his London apartment, in the bag and inside a bathtub.
Wilcox said the spy was likely killed either by suffocation or poisoning in a "criminally meditated act" and acknowledged it was possible that an intelligence agency colleague may have been involved.
It is "likely that Gareth entered the bag alive and then died very soon afterwards," the coroner said as Williams' family listened to her verdict inside Westminster Coroner's Court.
The coroner moved to dispel wild theories that have swirled around the case — insisting there was no evidence of a sexual encounter gone wrong, of suicidal intent, or that Williams' death was linked to a supposed interest in bondage.
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Ya think?
Title reflects the intelligence of the MSM today!
Did they have to get their CSI on the case to come to that conclusion?
If he was a friend of the Clintons it would be ruled suicide.
Likely dead....
certainly in grave condition...
“If he was a friend of the Clintons it would be ruled suicide.”
LOL!!!
And here I thought he had just curled himself up in the comfy bag to die a natural death. Silly me.
I particularly enjoyed the comment about how they had two people trying numerous times to duplicate magically closing themselves into the bag. I think the coroner was told “this is NOT to be found as a murder” and proceeded accordingly for more than a year.
I particularly enjoyed the comment about how they had two people trying numerous times to duplicate magically closing themselves into the bag. I think the coroner was told “this is NOT to be found as a murder” and proceeded accordingly for more than a year.
Not to mention it was also locked....
Reality check for James Bond.
Insightful!
Someone could have found him inconveniently dead somewhere, and just tidied up...
‘E’s just pining for the Fjords
Interesting fact: During the days of the Black Plague in London people did sew themselves into their own body bags to save people from having to touch them after they died
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