Metro : Bondage spy Gareth Williams had £15k worth of designer gear

Bondage spy Gareth Williams had £15k worth of designer gear

December 22, 2010

The MI6 spy found dead in sports holdall at his London flat last summer had a £15,000 collection of women’s designer clothing, detectives revealed.

Codebreaker Gareth Williams had also visited several bondage websites in the months before his death on August 23, police confirmed.

The ‘intensely private’ 31-year-old collected designer tops, dresses and shoes, and also visited a drag cabaret club four days before he died.

Items by Stella McCartney, Christopher Kane, and Louboutin had been bought at London boutiques and online. The clothing was in various sizes, all small, and a number of women’s wigs were also found.

His decomposing body was found in a padlocked holdall in the bath of his £400,000 Pimlico flat but the keys were inside. There was no sign of injury – except bruising to his elbows.

Forensic tests have shown that others had been in his flat just before his death. But they have not been traced.

Detective Ch Insp Jackie Sebire, who is leading the inquiry, said: ‘We remain completely open-minded about how he died. We are appealing to someone who is out there to come forward and tell us more.’

No evidence of drugs, alcohol or poisons were found during a battery of tests conducted by toxicologists.

Mr Williams probably died in the early hours of August 16, one week before he was found.

Police have released two e-fits of a casually dressed Mediterranean couple who said they were visiting Mr Williams’s Alderney Street home in late June or July.

They were buzzed through the communal entrance by another resident.

An inquest will be held at Westminster coroner’s court on February 15