BBC : MI6 spy Gareth Williams death 'probably an accident', police say

MI6 spy Gareth Williams death 'probably an accident', police say

November 13, 2013

The death of MI6 spy Gareth Williams, whose body was found in a padlocked sports bag, was probably an accident, police have said.

Last year, a coroner said it was likely Mr Williams, 31, from Anglesey, had been unlawfully killed in August 2010.

But the Metropolitan Police said an evidence review had found "it was more probable" no other person was present when he died in his London flat.

Mr Williams's family said they stood by the coroner's findings.

Roger Pinney reports.

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[video] BBC : Week In Week Out: Death of a Welsh Spy

BBC : Week In Week Out: Death of a Welsh Spy

BBC | May 2, 2012 | Wales only

Gareth Williams died in a locked bag in a bath. Week in Week Out speaks to key witnesses, and asks - was his death covered up? Will his family ever find out how, or why, he died?

[video] Reuters : Spy-in-bag case baffles UK police

Spy-in-bag case baffles UK police

Reuters | April 28, 2012

British investigators try to work out how the body of a spy ended up inside a locked sports bag with the keys to the padlock with him. Paul Chapman reports.

It's a mystery that's still baffling British police. How did a spy whose body was found in a locked sports bag like this get inside it. Gareth Williams had the keys to the lock with him inside the bag and there was no sign of a struggle. So did somebody else put him there? This police reconstruction shows a yoga expert trying to lock himself into a similar bag. He tried 300 times without success. A lawyer for Williams' family has told an inquest hearing they believed a secret service agency removed evidence from the scene relating to his death. British intelligence officials have denied the 31-year-old's unexplained death was linked to his work or that it had covered up the episode. One of the detectives investigating the death has said she believed someone else had helped him into the bag because there were specks of unidentified DNA on it. Williams' body was found in the bag at his apartment a week after he failed to show up for work with Britain's MI6 foreign intelligence agency. Paul Chapman, Reuters

[video] ITV: Wales This Week: Death Of A Spy

Wales This Week: Death Of A Spy

ITV panel including Miles Goslett and Gordon Thomas | April 17, 2012

[video] Sky News : MI6 Murder: Post-Mortem Cannot Explain Death

MI6 Murder: Post-Mortem Cannot Explain Death

Sky News | August 25, 2010