Mirror : MI6 spy found dead in a bag 'may have been poisoned' says retired detective

MI6 spy found dead in a bag 'may have been poisoned' says retired detective

By Alex Wellman | June 21, 2014

Gareth Williams' decomposed body was found inside a padlocked bag inside his London home in a case which has still not been solved

The MI6 spy who was found dead in a bag may have been poisoned, says the first detective to arrive on the scene.

Mystery has surrounded the death of British spook Gareth Williams ever since his body was found inside a padlocked bag in his central London flat in 2010.

Conspiracy theories have swirled around ever since but the most senior detective who was on the scene on the day Gareth’s body was found fears it could have been poisoning.

Retired murder squad detective Colin Sutton revealed that when he first entered the flat he was struck by how hot it was.

This made him think the heating could have been left on to speed up decomposition of the body.

He said: “If he had been poisoned, then the chemical compounds might have vanished by the time toxicology results were conducted.”

Speaking to The Sun, he added that with the deaths of Alexander Litvinenko and Georgi Markov, there are previous examples of spies being poisoned.

He said: “If the motive for Gareth’s death was around his job then poison become much more likely.”

The claims tie in with a coroner’s inquest into the death which said he was “unlawfully killed” but are in stark contrast to a police review which said the spy – who had a wardrobe full of women’s clothes - may have died in a lone sex game.