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

[Magda Hassan]

The paper claimed police had established that Williams, a single man, had a record of engaging in autoerotic practices, and that the greatest likelihood was that he had died as result of an experiment going wrong.

It would be a rare man in the City of London who has not engaged in 'auto erotic' practices on a regular basis probably daily basis but universally they manage to do it in such a way that is satisfying and safe and sure to satisfy. Not much room for Mrs Palmer and her five daughters to have their way with the one eyed trouser snake in such accommodation.

But then a wacko theory like this is maybe not so odd for a bunch who came up with using semen for ink.

[Peter Lemkin]

There is nothing about the 'theory' that is believeable. Nor that the facts support. This is obviously to keep the public from looking into what he was doing [as were others] at NSA, MI5/6 and the UK's electronic spy centers....and who really might have wanted him dead for knowing too much about something......but JUST HOW STUPID DO they think the public is?!?!?!? :bebored: And why is it taking so long on the toxicology tests?! My guess is they won't ever be released...if anything they will say they were 'inconclusive'. Just like the Nicaraguan Diplomat killed [stabbed, nearly beheaded] last night in NYC [was to go to the U.N. today]...and who told a friend what to do in the case of his death [leading her to believe he thought he'd soon be dead]...it was tentatively-ruled a 'suicide' by the NYC police. It is an Old, old trick of the police and security people.....fools most of the people most of the time too...sadly.:mad:

[Malcolm Pryce]

This explanation is so implausible it's almost as if they just can't be bothered to come up with a better one.

[Peter Lemkin]

MI6 spook did NOT die alone: Police certain he was padlocked in bag by someone else [DUH!!]

[they make it sound as if this 'Mediteranian Couple' were just social friends - no hint that they may have been fellow intel agents - friends or foes! The other strange bits are the constantly changing 'facts' of the case - as told by the 'authorities' to the 'press'!]

By Stephen Wright [MAIL]
Last updated at 1:00 AM on 25th September 2010

Murdered? Police are now certain that Gareth Williams was padlocked inside the holdall he was discovered in

The MI6 spy whose naked body was found in a sports bag in his bath could not have died alone, police believe.

They are now certain he was padlocked into the large holdall by someone else.

Gareth Williams, 31, who was working on secondment for MI6, was alive when he got into - or was forced into – the bag and died from suffocation.

There were no injuries on his body to suggest a struggle and police have still not ruled out the possibility that his death was the culmination of a bizarre sex game that went wrong.

But in another mysterious twist, the Mail can reveal that the outer door to Mr Williams’s flat in Pimlico, Central London, had apparently been locked from the outside when police arrived on the scene.

Detectives have now intensified their search for a Mediterranean couple known to have been with Mr Williams in the weeks before his death. They are understood to have had a set of keys to the flat.

The disclosures come after a month of frenzied speculation about what happened in the flat last month, including theories that Mr Williams committed suicide alone.

But as the head of MI6 attended Mr Williams’s funeral near his family home in North Wales yesterday, the Daily Mail can reveal that this line of inquiry has been discounted.

We can also reveal that there is no evidence to support claims that Mr Williams was a cross-dresser, that bondage equipment was found at his home, that a laptop was missing from the flat, or that he had reported to spy bosses that he was being followed.

Nor, as was claimed in one report, was any suspicious liquid found next to his body in the sports bag.

Police have also dismissed allegations of irregularities in his finances and there is no evidence that Mr Williams had committed any criminal acts.


The scene: Detectives investigating the murder have discovered that the front door of Mr Williams's flat was locked from the outside

Inquiries continue into his private life, which officers remain convinced will be the key to solving the case.

Mr Williams’s decomposing body was found inside a zipped and padlocked North Face bag in his flat on August 23.

Initially it was thought the cycling enthusiast had been murdered, but the case remains officially classified as ‘suspicious and unexplained’.

Detectives believe that whoever was present around the time of his death might have been too scared to come forward to explain what happened.

The revelation that the Mediterranean couple had their own keys emerged after the Daily Mail returned to the scene of Mr Williams’s death earlier this week and spoke to neighbours.

Detectives believe the man and woman, in their thirties, were known to Mr Williams because neighbours do not recall their being ‘buzzed’ into the address.

Despite repeated appeals, the couple – who visited the flat owned by the intelligence services in late June or early July – have not come forward.

Their reluctance to identify themselves has hampered ‘Operation Finlayson’, the code name given to the Metropolitan Police investigation into Mr Williams’s death.

The Mail can reveal that the results of two post-mortem examinations, carried out by respected pathologists Ben Swift and Dick Shepherd, are expected to be made public in the next fortnight.

Mr Williams's mother Ellen (centre) and sister Ceri at the funeral at Bethel Methodist Chapel in Anglesey. They were also joined by members of the security services and a tribute was read by Islwyn Williams, headteacher of his former primary school

Initial tests are understood to suggest that Mr Williams died of suffocation while in the bag. Toxicology tests showed no traces of alcohol or recreational drugs in his system.

Mr Williams’s body was found in an extra-large North Face bag, which features 140 litres of storage capacity, durable material, double stitching, twin haul handles and locking zips.

Claims that a WPC or escapologist of similar height and build to Mr Williams had locked the padlock while inside the same type of bag, during a ‘re-enactment’ of the possible events leading to his death, have been dismissed.

The head of MI6, Sir John Sawers, made the trip to Anglesey to support Mr Williams's family

A former senior Met detective said: ‘Cases like this are not like an episode of CSI. They are not solved neatly in 45 minutes.’

The head of MI6, Sir John Sawers, made the journey from London to the small Bethel Methodist Chapel in Anglesey for yesterday’s funeral to support Mr Williams’s family and represent colleagues who could not attend.

Mr Williams was on secondment at the Secret Intelligence Service from GCHQ in Cheltenham.

The mourners were led by his parents Ian and Ellen, his sister Ceri and her husband Chris Subbe.

A tribute was paid by Islwyn Williams, headteacher of Ysgol Morswyn, the primary school attended by the code-breaker and cipher specialist.

He said: ‘He accomplished more in three short decades than the rest of us do in a lifetime.’

Outside church, when asked if the investigation would ever get to the bottom of what happened to Mr Williams, Sir John insisted it was a police matter.

He said: ‘It has been a desperately sad period for the family since Gareth died.

‘Gareth was a hugely talented person and he was very modest and generous as well. He did really valuable work with us in the cause of national security.’

Mr Williams was last seen alive eight days before his body was found. CCTV showed him shopping at Harrods and at Holland Park Tube station.

The funeral service of spy Gareth Williams took place yesterday and was attended by the head of MI6, Sir John Sawers.

Sir John made the journey from London to the small Bethel Methodist Chapel in Anglesey on Friday to support Mr Williams's family and represent the maths genius's colleagues who could not attend.

Sir John, the public face of the agency, took his place in the 115-year-old church through the front door - unlike a number of other spooks ushered into the building through a back door to protect their identities.

Colleagues of Mr Williams attending his funeral cannot be identified as they work for the secret services so their faces are deliberately blurred

Tearful relatives followed Mr Williams's pine-coloured coffin into church with his parents Ian and Ellen and sister Ceri, whose husband Chris Subbe also paid tribute to Mr Williams during the service.

Mr Williams's parents issued a short statement saying: 'Ellen, Ian, Ceri, Chris and all the family wish to thank everyone for all the sympathy and kindness shown to them in their bereavement.'

In church, tributes were led by Islwyn Williams, the headteacher of the code breaker and cipher specialist's primary school, Ysgol Morswyn.

[Peter Lemkin]

FBI joins investigation of MI6 agent death

The FBI is the latest government organisation to join the manhunt for the couple linked to an MI6 agent that was found dead in a London safe house.

Using face recognition technology, the US Federal Investigations Bureau will determine if MI6 spy Gareth Williams at any point traveled to the US with a couple that fits the description of the two individuals being sought after by Scotland Yard. The couple, described as Mediterranean in appearance, is believed to have visited Williams’ flat in June or July.

Scotland Yard has, so far, not been able to locate the couple, but detectives maintain that they are vital to the ongoing inquiry. Williams’, a maths prodigy, made frequent trips to the US to the US National Security Agency in Maryland working on secondment. Williams arrived back in London from Washington on Tuesday 10 August and his body was found in his flat on 23 August. On the 15th of August, Williams was caught on camera shopping at Harrods. The MI6 agent’s funeral was held Friday and attended by MI6 head Sir John Sawers.

FBI agents have searched the flat that Williams used while working at the NSA in the States and have interviewed several of his colleagues. They have also taken steps to investigate whether or not the couple could be linked to Williams small group of friends in the States. According to US intelligence sources, so far nothing compromising has been turned up during the investigation.

Williams was a key player in a joint team operation put together by MI6, NSA and GCHQ. He was working on defence schemes for cyber attacks for both Britain and the US at the time of his death. According to one source, Williams clearance was so high, he had access to more than 30 different categories of NSA information.

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CIA probes British spy murder as it emerges he was sent on frequent missions to Pentagon's high-security listening post

By Charlotte Gill, Emily Andrews and Liz Hull
Last updated at 9:01 AM on 27th August 2010

Gareth Williams: Visited the National Security Agency in America at least four times a year

The CIA was called in to help investigate the murder of an MI6 spy last night as it emerged he was sent on frequent secret missions to the United States.

American intelligence officers are poring over every detail of Gareth Williams's work and personal life to see if the circumstances of his death endangered U.S. national security.

The Daily Mail can reveal that the 31-year-old codebreaker flew to the National Security Agency, the Pentagon's listening post and the largest intelligence agency in the world, up to four times a year. He returned from his last trip to America only a few weeks before he was found dead.

Questions also remain over why his body lay undiscovered for up to a fortnight at his£400,000 flat in a Victorian townhouse in Pimlico, central London, half a mile from MI6 headquarters.

Mr Williams worked at the Government's listening post, GCHQ in Cheltenham, but had been on secondment to MI6 for the past year and was due to return to GCHQ next Friday.

The body of the keen cyclist was found in a sports holdall in the bath on Monday afternoon.

But yesterday his former landlady in Cheltenham insisted he had not been off work, intensifying the mystery surrounding his death.

Security sources could not explain why some one holding such a sensitive post was able to go 'missing' for such a long time before police were called.

Officers were last night examining the hard drive of a laptop computer found
in the flat.

Landlady Jenny Elliott said: 'He definitely wasn't on annual leave as the security services woman who came to see me after they found his body told me that he wasn't on holiday.

'Why did no one notice? It's disgraceful the police weren't alerted earlier that he was missing. His murder is devastating and I just hope the person who did it is caught.

Mrs Elliott, 71, who rented Mr Williams a self-contained flat attached to her home in Cheltenham, said he would often travel to America for weeks at a time three or four times a year either with a male colleague or on his own.
National Security Agenc

National Security Agency: The largest intelligence agency in the world, bases at Fort Meade, Maryland. It is understood that Gareth Williams visited the facility up to four times a year

His uncle, who lives in Anglesey, North Wales, where Mr Williams grew up, said: 'He'd been making the trips for a couple of years.

'I only found this out very recently and I do not know where in America he was staying or who he was working for out there, but I do know it was in relation to his job.

'His last trip was this summer. He returned from the States just a couple of weeks or so before he died.'

A U.S. intelligence source said there was 'no panic' yet within the National
Security Agency and people who knew Mr Williams were still to be questioned.

The source said: 'The strong implication is that his death is not connected
to his intelligence work, though this could change at any time. They are understandably concerned about what has happened and are keeping a close eye on developments.'

Mr Williams's devastated parents Ian and Ellen have faced speculation over their son's private life.

It has been reported that Mr Williams, who lived alone and did not have a partner,
was a gay cross dresser and may have been killed by a gay lover.
PCSO on guard

On guard: A police support officer guards Mr Williams former home. The CIA have now joined the investigation into his death, although there is said to be 'no panic' that his death may be related to his intelligence work

Police sources believe another theory is the spy's killer may have planted a trail of clues to make it seem as though he was murdered by a gay lover.

They said gay magazines and the phone numbers of gay escort men were found in the apartment near the agent's body.

Police have also asked a pathologist to check whether Mr Williams's neck was broken, which would suggest a professional hit, the sources said.

Those who know him say there is nothing to suggest that he may have been homosexual.

Mrs Elliott, who rented her flat to him for ten years during his time at GCHQ, never saw him bring anyone – male or female – back to his home.

Detectives are still trying to ascertainhow Mr Williams died. A postmortem
examination proved inconclusive and now they must wait for toxicology results to find out whether drugs, alcohol, poisoning or suffocation were the cause of death.

Sources say he was not stabbed, shot, strangled or beaten. Scotland Yard is describing the death as 'suspicious and unexplained'.

A former MI6 officer said that intelligence chiefs are furious that details of Mr Williams's work as a spy had been leaked.
Pentagon Graphic

Harry Ferguson said senior officials at the Secret Intelligence Service wanted to suppress any information about his work and to simply refer to him as a 'civil servant' when news of the murder was made public.

'They hoped details of his role could all be kept covered up. It is a standard
process. Blurting it out has caused a lot of unnecessary embarrassment, risk and upheaval to the SIS.

'If it had been managed properly it could have been kept quiet. He could simply have been described as a government worker or civil servant.

'They are especially frustrated that it has emerged that not only was he was working in GCHQ, but also on secondment to MI6.'

Mr Ferguson said secret service bosses feared that the 'nightmare scenario' had come true when the body was discovered.

'One of the concerns about having such a high profile building as the SIS does is that, while staff can be protected when inside the building, there a significant risk that they could be followed home,' he said.

'It is the sort of thing that a small group of Islamists or other terror network would clearly be capable of doing.'

He said the apparent 'ritualistic' scene at Mr Williams' flat, with his mobile phone and SIM cards carefully laid out, also suggested it could have been carried out by a foreign agency to send a message.
The reclusive maths genius and rumours of cross-dressing and blackmail

FROM a tender age, it was clear to his teachers at Morswyn primary school on Anglesey that there was something special about Gareth Williams.

A talented pupil, he was fast-tracked through education, earning his maths GCSE aged nine while most of his contemporaries were still grappling with basic arithmetic.

By 13 he had secured his A-levels and had a degree in maths by 17.

He was known as ‘the maths genius’ by fellow pupils and possessed the ‘fastest brain’ his teachers had encountered. But his academic excellence came at a price.
Gareth Williams schoolboy

Bright boy: Gareth Williams, centre, with classmates in 1987. He staggered teachers with his ability in maths, passing a GCSE aged only nine, and obtaining his A-Level at 13

Forced to study with children several years older than himself, he found it hard to make friends and was last night described by former school mates as ‘socially naive’ and ‘introverted’.

Detectives were last night investigating whether this shy, private side to his nature made him vulnerable to blackmail amid lurid claims that he was a secret cross-dresser.

Geraint Williams, his maths teacher at secondary school, recalled how young Gareth was so clever that he sat his intermediate maths GCSE, gaining a grade B, while still at primary school, before being moved up to Bodedern Secondary School, Holyhead, a year ahead of his peers.

Within months of his arrival he took his advanced GCSE, scoring an A grade, and received top marks in A-level maths and computer studies two years later, when he was 13.

His teachers were initially at a loss at how best to educate him.Their solution was to move him up two years and enrol the youngster, then aged15, on a three-year maths degree course at his local university at Bangor, which heattained in just two years with first class honours.

Teacher Mr Williams said: ‘I’d heard about this amazing pupil who had done his GCSE at primary school and got a B at intermediate level.

‘He took the higher level GCSE in a couple of months and got an A. It was a problem for us – what could we do with him? We got him to follow A-levels and he did A-level maths and computer science in the third-form. He achieved As in them.

‘That was a big problem because he was still only 13, so we contacted Bangor University and he followed the first year of maths degree course.’

The teacher added: ‘He was the best logician and the pupil with the fastest brain I have ever met. You only had to say things once, that’s why he was so successful. He could understand things immediately. He was also extremely good with computer science.

‘Gareth was also a very nice lad, quiet and unassuming. It’s very sad.’

After leaving Bangor University at 17, Mr Williams went on to study for a PhD at Manchester University before enrolling in postgraduate certificate at St Catharine’s College, Cambridge, in 2000.

He dropped out a year later, but last night friends speculated that he left afterbeing taken on by the Secret Services, which traditionally recruit from Oxbridge.

They said it was an open secret that Mr Williams worked at GCHQ, but added that any notion that the quiet, unassuming boy lead a James Bond spy lifestyle was laughable.

One close friend, who attended primary school with Mr Williams, said: ‘Gareth was a super, super brain. Beyond intelligent, a very, very clever guy.

‘He was hand-picked while at Cambridge by the services, they want the cream of the crop and he certainly was that.

‘It was common knowledge that he worked at GCHQ, but any notion that he led a James Bond style lifestyle is rubbish.

‘Those kind of people have to be able to blend in, but Gareth wasn’t like that, he was very different.

‘He was introverted and found it difficult to make friends, but he was a lovely, lovely bloke. It is such a tragic waste of such a talented life.’
Williams Family Home

The family home: Mr Williams was raised in Holyhead by parents Ian and Ellen. Last night they were said to be 'devastated' at the death of their son

The dead man’s parents, Ian, an engineer at Wylfa power station, and mother Ellen, who worked in education, were on holiday in America celebrating their joint 50th birthdays when news of their son’s death broke.Last night they were said to be ‘devastated’.

Another former school friend, Dylan Parry, 34, said he was ‘dumfounded’ by the murder.

‘Gareth was the last person I would have believed would be involved in the murkier elements of life,’ said Mr Parry, of Holyhead. ‘He really was about as far from a James Bond figure as it’s possible to imagine.

‘Gareth was introverted and socially awkward. He wasn’t dashing or cavalier or a charmer, although he was extremely nice in a quiet way.

‘There has been a lot of speculation about his sexuality, but he was so introverted as to be asexual.‘

He wasn’t able to form relationships because he was so obsessed with his maths studies.

‘We nicknamed him the maths genius because he was so clever. He was so naive, he was someone people could easily take advantage of.

‘I wouldn’t have thought he was a very good judge of character and it’s possible he got to know someone who wasn’t very safe. He was so innocent.’

[Jan Klimkowski]

There seems to be no MI6 equivalent of Alastair Campbell because this thing is leaking like a sieve with a slightly rehashed variation of each particular theme being anonymously briefed by "sources in the know" to sympathetic hacks from rival newspapers on a near daily basis.

So, either:

i) competing elements (factions) within intelligence agencies are pushing (leaking) their own version of events;

ii) the investigations of MI6, Scotland Yard's "finest" and the NSA have descended into farce and chaos;

iii) there is a master press strategy which is deliberately to create farce and chaos and hope the public forgets all about this embarrassment.

Meanwhile, here is some of the key rubbish in recent reports that set my antennae twitching:

But in another mysterious twist, the Mail can reveal that the outer door to Mr Williams’s flat in Pimlico, Central London, had apparently been locked from the outside when police arrived on the scene.

Detectives have now intensified their search for a Mediterranean couple known to have been with Mr Williams in the weeks before his death. They are understood to have had a set of keys to the flat.

(snip)


The revelation that the Mediterranean couple had their own keys emerged after the Daily Mail returned to the scene of Mr Williams’s death earlier this week and spoke to neighbours.

Detectives believe the man and woman, in their thirties, were known to Mr Williams because neighbours do not recall their being ‘buzzed’ into the address.

Despite repeated appeals, the couple – who visited the flat owned by the intelligence services in late June or early July – have not come forward.

That deductive process about the mediterranean couple possessing keys to an MI6 safe house is complete shit, Sherlock.

Plus surely there must a process of authorization, identification and security clearance to a top secret intelligence safe house which, it has been disclosed, was used for debriefing of high level defectors and agents.

One would imagine that process of authorization would have included CCTV or other image based technology.

But perhaps not....

Using face recognition technology, the US Federal Investigations Bureau will determine if MI6 spy Gareth Williams at any point traveled to the US with a couple that fits the description of the two individuals being sought after by Scotland Yard. The couple, described as Mediterranean in appearance, is believed to have visited Williams’ flat in June or July.

Does this mean there is no CCTV at the MI6 safe house, and there are no extant images of the dusky couple? So, the FBI is hoping to find Williams entering the US via airport CCTV and will then look for any suitably tanned couple in his vicinity?

:bebored:

In addition, if the mediterranean pair are the assassins would they seriously have placed themselves in such close proximity to Williams at airports and the MI6 safehouse, where they must surely have expected there would be security cameras everywhere?

Meanwhile, earlier this month, the Mail on Sunday had been briefed by sources close to the Scotland Yard investigation that a petite police woman had reconstructed the zipping-and-padlocking-oneself-into-a-sports-bag trick.

The newspaper then concluded that this meant auto-erotic asphyxiation was the likely cause of death:

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.

Now, "senior intelligence sources" have claimed that an escaplogist, not a petite policewoman, was used in the reconstruction, and these "senior intelligence sources" have leaked that the police believe it was auto-erotic asphyxiation:

The hypothesis was reported by the Sunday Times, quoting anonymous "security sources".

The paper claimed police had established that Williams, a single man, had a record of engaging in autoerotic practices, and that the greatest likelihood was that he had died as result of an experiment going wrong.

According to the Sunday Times' source, police recently invited an escapologist to show them whether it was possible to lock oneself in a holdall and get out again. The escapologist duly climbed into the bag, padlocked it from the inside and then unzipped it using a sharp-tipped pen.

Convinced by this - and without addressing whether a 31-year-old codebreaker would necessarily have the skills honed over the years by a seasoned escapologist - the police were apparently persuaded that Williams must have got into the bag and then suffocated in the August heat before he could release himself.

"The emerging background is something almost certainly autoerotic," a "senior official" told the paper.

But the Mail on Sunday's sources have now dissed the paper's own earlier exclusive revelations:

Initial tests are understood to suggest that Mr Williams died of suffocation while in the bag. Toxicology tests showed no traces of alcohol or recreational drugs in his system.

Mr Williams’s body was found in an extra-large North Face bag, which features 140 litres of storage capacity, durable material, double stitching, twin haul handles and locking zips.

Claims that a WPC or escapologist of similar height and build to Mr Williams had locked the padlock while inside the same type of bag, during a ‘re-enactment’ of the possible events leading to his death, have been dismissed.

The Mail on Sunday continues:

We can also reveal that there is no evidence to support claims that Mr Williams was a cross-dresser, that bondage equipment was found at his home, that a laptop was missing from the flat, or that he had reported to spy bosses that he was being followed.

Nor, as was claimed in one report, was any suspicious liquid found next to his body in the sports bag.

So, no liquid now.

And no gay sex paraphernalia.

But still the same old slurs:

Inquiries continue into his private life, which officers remain convinced will be the key to solving the case.

Um. The hacks are deliberately missing the great stomping :elefant: in the room.

It is most likely that Williams was murdered not because of some aspect of his personal life, but of his PROFESSIONAL life, as a spy for MI6 and the NSA (and who knows who else).

Williams had been involved in deep black covert operations in Afghanistan.

Williams was privy to deep black money trails in and out of the City of London, which would almost certainly have included laundering of drugs and arms money, and off-the-books funding of covert operations.

The fundamental aim of all the intel agency and police leaking to hacks appears to be to direct attention towards some "secret" in Williams' personal life, and away from the location of the truly dirty secrets, in Williams' professional life.

I currently favour my option iii) at the beginning of this post:

There is a master press strategy which is deliberately to create farce and chaos and hope the public forgets all about this embarrassment.

[Peter Lemkin]

1a - Door was locked from inside
1b - Door was locked from outside

2a - Strange liquid on body
2b - No liquid on body

3a - Mobile phones and SIM cards laid out in pattern
3b - No array of phones or SIM cards

4a - dismembered and stuffed in carryall
4b - whole naked body in carryall

5a - locked into bag by someone else
5b - locked self into carryall somehow

6a - flat full of gay pornography and S&M items
6b - No porn nor S&M items

7a - Financial transactions just before and AFTER death from account
7b - No such suspicious financial transactions

8a - Safe House with direct line and other unspecified precautions
8b - No information on those entering or exiting near time of death

9a - Computer taken
9b - Computer NOT taken [Bull - MI6 has that under lock and key!]

10a - Had wild gay life style outside of flat
10b - Had only cycling and shopping as activities out of flat

11a - Results of forensic exams to be given next week
11b - Results of forensic exams to be given 'next'' week [3-4 weeks later than original]

12a - First exam found no signs of suffocation
12b - Suffocation now lead suspected cause of death

13a - Hints that someone was present at death but not cause of death...just ''embarrassed to step forward"
13b - Mediteranean couple are highly suspect and sought and had key with which they likely locked door shut

14a - police woman locked self in North Face Bag; then it was an escape-artist
14b - Denial that either had attempted locking self in bag and attempting escape

....and on and on and on....

These kinds of morphing patterns most here will be familiar with in most big secret ops: Dallas, 9-11, 7-7, Kelly, Anthrax attacks, Jonestown...you-name-it...they morph! The more important the secret the more they morph!!!:evil: And as Jan points out....it is all to keep the audience watching the magicians moving hand, so as not to see the trick.....[his job and what he knew from his job!]

[Malcolm Pryce]

Huh!?

First the police brief the press that a WPC locked herself in the bag, and now those 'claims' are 'dismissed.'

How does that work? Did the police dismiss their own claims?

[David Guyatt]

Well said on yours No.86 above Jan.

The whole story now reeks of crass disinfo. Little more useful will now come out about this curious event now that the fix is well and truly in.

And on the Feebee angle, if only the rgularly swollen-headed Jenifer Edgar Hoover was still alive the boys from Dragnet would have their very own deep-throat telling them what really happened.

But Jenifer went off to the big flowery frock-shop in the sky to rouge his lips, straighten his hose and prepare for his next unbuckling.

[Magda Hassan]

Huh!?

First the police brief the press that a WPC locked herself in the bag, and now those 'claims' are 'dismissed.'

How does that work? Did the police dismiss their own claims?

I know Malcolm, and all that trouble you went to as well! :burnout: