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A British spy whose naked body
was found padlocked in a bag
in his bathtub was probably
unlawfully killed, a coroner
concluded on the final day of
day of the inquest into his
death. But it is "unlikely"
that the full circumstances of
the death in 2010 of Gareth
Williams, a high-flying
codebreaker with the MI6
external intelligence agency,
will ever be explained,
coroner Fiona Wilcox added.
Ms Wilcox told the inquest she
was "satisfied" that "a third
party moved the bag
containing Gareth into the
bath" in his London flat.
The inquest had heard that
experts were unable to agree
how Williams had died.
The hearings focused on
whether he could have locked
himself into the holdall as
part of a lone sex act, after
examination of his computer
showed he had visited bondage
websites.
But Ms Wilcox said it was
"highly unlikely" that the
31-year-old could have got
inside the holdall alone and
observed that the surfaces
around the bathtub were
strangely clear of any
evidence.
"If Gareth had been carrying
out some kind of peculiar
experiment, he wouldn't care
if he left any foot- or
fingerprints," the coroner
concluded.
The inquest heard last week
from experts who had failed to
padlock themselves into bags
identical to Williams',
despite several hundred
attempts.
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