Thursday, May 17, 2012

Gareth Williams' Spy Troubles by Isaac Anguiano
The mysterious death alluding Gareth Williams, GCHQ code breaker, raises a lot of questions, but leaves many unanswered. Who was involved in his death? Was it a suicide or a homicide? Was his death linked to his work due to his private life? Why did MI6 wait so long to report him missing? According to sources his private life was bizarre. His wardrobe consisted of a myriad of women’s apparel, ranging from shoes to different clothing sizes, wigs, and makeup. He was also into many different sexual activities. According to his landlady “she and her husband had found him shouting for help, with his hands tied to his bedposts, three years before his death. He said he was seeing if he could get free. They cut him free, believing it ‘sexual rather than escapology.’” The way William’s was found in the bag could also have been some sort of “escapology” act or a sexual act of some sort, but one thing is for sure, he would have had to be alive in order to get in the bag. If he had been dead rigor mortis would have made it impossible to place him in the bag. Due to the fact that he would have had to be alive in order to be placed in such a manner in the bag, people speculate whether a third party was present in his flat at the moment Williams died. Inconclusive DNA evidence was also found on a crumpled paper towel in the kitchen and the fact that his body was decomposed severely makes it impossible to run any type of tests on him in order to check if he was drugged or not. His body had deteriorated due to the heat from the bag, but also due to the fact that his heater was on for reasons unknown during summer. [via BBC news]