Police find body in bag at MI6 man's London flat

[Peter Lemkin]

The telegraph begins the public softening up process for the inevitable cover-up. Grave issues of National Security are involved doncha know?

The thing is MI6 appear to have been slow off the mark on this one, not to mentioned a tad flustered with their well-worn tactics alleging rituals, kinky/homo/auto-erotic sex (haven't had pedophillia yet but it's early days) etc etc. Plod does seem to have been somewhat miffed by them though - and I sense a degree of fluttering in the Dovecote's of State. It will be fascinating to watch developments.

The true explanation for the murder of Gareth Williams, the MI6 codebreaker found dead in a bath, may have to be kept secret even if his killer is found and put on trial, lawyers have warned.

The intense secrecy surrounding the investigation has prompted speculation that any future court case could be the first murder trial in British legal history to be held entirely behind closed doors.

Mr Williams, 31, an employee of GCHQ, the government’s “listening post” in Cheltenham, Glos, who was working on secondment to MI6 in London, was found dead at a flat in London last week.

No one has been arrested and police have been investigating Mr Williams’s background as well as his movements in the days before his death.
But it is thought that the unique level of sensitivity around the case – with the dead man, his workmates, his movements and even the flat where he was found all linked to the security services – could make any future court case virtually impossible to try in public.
Lawyers said that powers already available under the criminal procedure rules 2005 could be used by a judge to hold all or part of any future trial in secret for reasons of national security.
Under a separate procedure the prosecution could even apply for a “Public Interest Immunity certificate” banning sensitive evidence being disclosed even to the defence.
Similar powers were recently used by David Miliband, the former Foreign Secretary, in an attempt to prevent three senior judges disclosing details about the treatment of Binyam Mohamed, the former Guantánamo Bay detainee.
In 2008 the case of Wang Yam, a financial adviser accused of murdering Allan Chappelow, an 86-year-old writer, made legal history when it was heard partly in secret. .....

etc etc

Ah, yes....the brave new world post 9-11 and 7-7, where anything can be and almost everything will be secret....and democracy, open legal process, sunshine in governmental actions, all that intelligence agencies do are buried. It is not a war on terrorists, but of terror and upon US - all of us not behind the 'curtain'.