Mirror : Murder detectives to quiz spies for first time over body-in-a-bag death

Murder detectives to quiz spies for first time over body-in-a-bag death

Met commissioner Bernard Hogan-Howe said the secret intelligence service would be treated the same as any other organisation

Tom Pettifor | May 9, 2012

MURDER squad detectives are to quiz MI6 staff for the first time about the death of spy Gareth Williams, it was revealed yesterday.

Met commissioner Bernard Hogan-Howe said the secret intelligence service would be treated the same as any other organisation as his officers reinvestigate the case.

He said: “All we need to do is make sure all areas of his life were fully explored.”

Staff will be screened for DNA on a voluntary basis.

Mr Hogan-Howe added that the Met would have complete access to MI6 material.

He branded it “unacceptable” that officers only learned of memory sticks and a holdall found at Mr Williams’ work at last month’s inquest, two years after his body was discovered.

A coroner ruled that Mr Williams, 31, from Anglesey, who was found locked in a bag in a bath in his London flat in 2010, was probably unlawfully killed.