Members of the secret services are expected to come under scrutiny as detectives redouble their efforts to solve the death of MI6 officer Gareth Williams. Yesterday a coroner delivered a narrative verdict but said he was probably unlawfully killed.
In concluding her narrative verdict Westminster coroner Dr Fiona Wilcox told the inquest that she was sure a third party was involved, and that that third party had not been invited in. She added that she was "sure that a third party moved the bag containing Gareth into the bath".
She thought Mr Williams had entered the bag alive, but that anyone involved in locking it was certainly involved in the death. She said she believed the purpose of placing the bag in the bath was to allow decay and fluids to drain away.
Dr Wilcox said that there was no evidence as to motive, no evidence related to work or who that third party may have been. She concluded that she had to record a narrative verdict as an open verdict would not do justice, and that on the balance of probabilities Gareth was killed unlawfully.
Britain's top police officer has warned MI6 that it is not above the law as they continue to investigate the death of Gareth Williams.
A fresh investigation is to be launched into the death of Welsh MI6 officer Gareth Williams after an inquest raised new lines of inquiry.
The coroner at the inquest into the death of a Welsh MI6 spy is expected to record a verdict later today.