'Spy-in-bag' buried with mystery over death unsolved

Spy: Gareth Williams's body was found in a holdall inside his London flat while he was working for MI6
12 April 2012

The funeral of MI6 code-breaker Gareth Williams was to take place today, with police still struggling to understand how he died.

The 31-year-old's naked body was found padlocked shut in a holdall in a bath at his Pimlico flat on August 23.

He died while on secondment to the Secret Intelligence Service from his work at Government Communications HQ in Cheltenham.

The funeral will be held at 1pm in Anglesey. Mr Williams's parents, Ian and Ellen, asked for donations in the keen cyclist's memory to go to their local mountain rescue service.

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