Express : SPY’S BODY WAS LOCKED IN BAG

SPY’S BODY WAS LOCKED IN BAG

By John Twomey | September 2, 2010

THE body of MI6 codebreaker Gareth Williams was stuffed in a holdall and padlocked, a court heard yesterday.

The spy’s killer lifted the sports bag and corpse into the bath and fled.

Fresh details of the murder mystery were revealed yesterday as an inquest was briefly opened into Mr Williams’s death. It emerged after the hearing that a set of front door keys were found inside the flat in Pimlico, central London.

They almost certainly belonged to Mr Williams. But it raises the possibility that the killer had his own set since the flat was locked.

It could equally mean Mr Williams, 31, knew the murderer and let him into his home. Detectives believe the spy died in his flat but have no clear idea of the circumstances.

Williams, who was on secondment to MI6 from the Government’s listening post GCHQ, was found dead on August 23.

Post-mortem examinations have failed to establish a cause of death and more tests are being carried out.