"Slain UK spy’s family wants answers" Associated Press, March 31, 2012
LONDON - The family of a British codebreaker whose naked and decomposing body was found inside a padlocked sports bag believes the country’s intelligence agencies may have interfered with evidence that could explain the spy’s puzzling death, their lawyer said Friday.
Lawyer Anthony O’Toole told a hearing that relatives of Gareth Williams, who was discovered inside the bag in the bathtub of his central London home in August 2010, do not accept an assertion by British authorities that his death was unconnected to his work.
The 31-year-old cryptology expert worked for Britain’s secret eavesdropping service GCHQ and was attached to the country’s MI6 overseas spy agency at the time of his death.
O’Toole said his family believes an “unknown third party’’ may have tampered with the scene where Williams was found.
“The impression of the family is that the unknown third party was a member of some agency specializing in the dark arts of the secret services, or evidence has been removed post-mortem by experts in the dark arts,’’ he told a hearing being held to prepare for a full inquest scheduled next month.
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And what explanation is offered by the government?
"British spy’s death a lingering mystery; Foul play or sex game gone wrong?" by John F. Burns | New York Times, April 28, 2012
LONDON - Britain, home to the MI6 spy agency that inspired the James Bond stories and the billion-dollar film franchise, has been wrestling this week with one of the country’s strangest real-life spy mysteries in a generation, one that has become known popularly as the case of the spy in the bag.
An inquest held just across the Thames from MI6’s headquarters
brought forth details of the bizarre and lonely death in August 2010 of
Gareth Williams, a 31-year-old rising star in supersecret
counterterrorism work. He was found in a fetal position, arms crossed on
his chest, locked inside a duffel bag in an unfilled bathtub at the
government flat assigned to him in the upscale Pimlico district of
London.
His naked body had been in the bag for a week before it was
discovered, so badly decomposed that the police and pathologists have
been unable to determine whether he was murdered in what his family’s
lawyer has described to the court as a plot by others skilled in the
“dark arts’’ of spy work.
That
theory has played prominently, with Williams depicted alternately as a
victim of Russian secret service hit men, extremists with Al Qaeda, or a
multitude of other potential assassins working in the murky world of
espionage who poisoned him with potassium cyanide or an overdose of a
powerful sedative drug, GHB, a theory pathologists said could not be
effectively tested because of the advanced decomposition.
While the police and MI6 officials have refused to rule out those
theories, they suggested a more likely but mundane explanation: That
although the day had long passed when the agency dictated agents’
lifestyles, he was leading a doubly secret life, as a licensed MI6 field
agent and as a sexual fantasist.
According to this hypothesis, he simply died in a sex game that went wrong.
They really expect us to believe that, huh?
A clue to Williams’ mindset at his death came from a clipping from the newspaper The Observer that was found in his flat.
Oh, they found a planted clipping at his flat! That confirms it!
Dated on the day before his last Web search, the article focused on
research into what people on their deathbeds most regretted.
These included not having the “courage to live true to myself,’’ the
wish to have “stayed in touch with friends,’’ and the regret that one
did not “let myself be happier.’’
Yeah, it was another "suicide."
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Ever notice there is ALWAYS SOMETHING MORE to the story than what the AmeriKan media tells us?
The case reminds me of the Danny Casolaro killing.
