MI6 spy death: 'Mystery' third party's DNA found at scene, inquest hearsReported by Metro.co.uk on Tuesday, 24 April 2012 (on April 24, 2012)
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*Traces of someone else's DNA were discovered near the body of MI6 spy Gareth Williams, who was found dead inside a travel bag, an inquest has heard.*
British code breaker Gareth Williams (Picture: PA)
Two ‘minor components’ of genetic material were found on a fastener and padlock that secured Mr Williams’ body inside, a coroner was told.
Det Ch Insp Jackie Sebire, the officer leading the investigation, said: ‘My thought or my opinion since I went into the scene is that a third party had been involved in the death or by putting the body in the bag.’
Mr Williams, a GCHQ codebreaker, was on secondment to MI6 when his naked body was discovered in a holdall dumped in the bath of a central London safehouse in 2010.
Footage taken by police of the 31-year-old’s Pimlico flat showed bulges in the red North Face bag that contained his body. But there was no damage that would indicate a struggle by Mr Williams – who was a keen cyclist, said DCI Sebire.
‘He was very muscular, he trained regularly,’ she told Westminster coroner’s court.
‘It is only my opinion but I would have expected some tearing to the netting. In my opinion he was very calm. His face was very calm. His hands were resting on his chest.’
A graphic of the red sports bag that Mr Williams' body was discovered in at his flat on Alderney Street, London, SW1 (Picture: PA)
The film also showed a red wig, lipstick and make-up – part of the £20,000 haul of designer women’s clothing and cosmetics discovered in ‘pristine’ condition at the flat.
But Mr Williams’ childhood sweetheart Sian Jones insisted he was not a transvestite and would ‘most definitely’ have told her if he was.
She claimed they were gifts, adding: ‘I think he would have confided in me.’ The hearing continues.
PICTURES: More images from the Gareth Williams inquest
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