Is The British Secret Service Secretly Doing Secret Things? In Secret?
In what is being lauded by many as the understatement of the century, the coroner investigating the death of MI6 spy Gareth Williams - who was found dead locked inside a suitcase, in a bath, in a locked flat - has accused the police of not being 'completely impartial'.
This has lead some commentators to ask whether the Secret Service can be trusted to be completely honest about whether or not it is secretly murdering people. Investigations into whether this could in fact be the case are said to be centred around the word 'secret' in the phrase 'secret service'.
Revelations that key evidence, from a set of 9 memory sticks to a sports bag (both belonging to the dead man), were completely ignored by the investigating police have lent weight to the popular theory that the police are, in fact, basically a bunch of idiots. But could something more sinister be going on?
It is certainly an interesting case. A man found dead in a locked suitcase which he could not have locked himself, in a locked room that noone else could have locked, adds in interesting twist to the classic 'locked door mystery' beloved of crime fiction fans. This has led one investigator, a certain Mr Dirk Gentley, to suggest that Mr Williams was did not die by his own hand or by anyone else's, but in fact still exists in a state of quantum 'superposition' inside a Mrs Marple novel.
Read the real news story here: Coroner criticises MI6 investigation into spy Gareth Williams' death
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