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

[Jan Klimkowski]

Police believe the MI6 spy found dead in a sports bag in a bath inside his flat may have died after a bizarre sex game went wrong, according to well-placed sources.

That really is a world class example of journalistic tripe.

"Well-placed sources" - Scotland Yard's finest rozzers or secret intelligence service? I think we should be told.

"Bizarre sex game" - I note the hacks fail to explain the erotic appeal of climbing into a sports bag, zipping it up, and performing the athletic act of padlocking it from inside. This is intended to be sexually arousing? How? Why?

Could Harry Houdini only get a hardon when chaining himself up in a confined space?

Ffs - this is absolutely ridiculous.

The link to Milligan's erotic asphyxiation death scene, complete with satsuma in mouth, is only relevant to the extent that both were staged to discredit the victim and any intelligence information they may have been about to make public.

Meanwhile, I think we should be shown a video of the Scotland Yard reconstruction of their theory of Williams' death featuring an especially petite officer. It would become an immediate comedy gold classic:

The Mail on Sunday has learned that a woman police officer climbed into the holdall in which codebreaker Gareth Williams’ naked body was found, re-enacting the events which it is thought could have led to his death.
She managed to zip up the bag and padlock it from the inside, leading investigators to conclude that Mr Williams may have done the same for sexual kicks and suffocated when he could not reopen it.
The theory was bolstered by the fact that a key to the padlock was found alongside his body inside the £150 bag.
Despite being crouched in the holdall, the police officer was able to squeeze her hand through a small gap between the padlock and the zip fastener and lock it from the inside.
Police believe Mr Williams may have gone through the same extraordinary routine, and then passed out, possibly as a result of panic when he was unable to reopen the padlock.

The identity of the officer who undertook the unusual police assignment is not known.
She was chosen partly because her petite size is similar to the slim and short frame of 31-year-old keep-fit fanatic Mr Williams.
His body was found in an extra-large North Face bag, a type which is favoured by explorers because of its 140 litres of storage capacity, durable material, double stitching, twin haul handles and locking zips.
Erotic asphyxiation is defined as the intentional restriction of oxygen to the brain for sexual arousal.

The practice claimed the life of Tory MP Stephen Milligan, whose body was found in 1994 with a bag over his head and an orange in his mouth.