The 2010 death of Gareth Williams, a Welsh GCHQ codebreaker on secondment to MI6, remains one of the most bizarre and disturbing unsolved cases in modern British history. His naked body was found inside a red North Face holdall, which was padlocked from the outside, in the bathtub of his London flat. The heating was on full blast in August.
This case absolutely haunts me. I remember reading about it when it first broke, and the whole “self-inflicted accident” thing just never sat right. How do you even padlock yourself into a bag like that from the *outside*? And the heat being cranked up in August? It just screams something far more sinister. I stumbled across [**https://youtu.be/znFGO3I2YDI?si=UGoqOiLY6mnmYbNN**](https://youtu.be/znFGO3I2YDI?si=UGoqOiLY6mnmYbNN) earlier today and it goes into some really convincing theories about why MI6 might have wanted this case closed quickly, and the potential involvement of foreign agents.
The details about him investigating Russian money laundering really makes you wonder if it was a warning shot from a rival intelligence agency. It’s truly one of those mysteries where the official explanation feels more like a cover story than the truth.
The_Gumbo on
Heck of an accident.
/s
Oven-Mission on
I remember watching a show about this one, was certainly a foreign intelligence message being sent, they clinically srubbed his house of any evidence at all, so the police found absolutely nothing, except him in a zipped bag, and his sister said he was a maths genius analyst or something, and there was no way he would lock himself in there without an escape plan (they said he had a fetish for being in small spaces). Correct me if i’m wrong though, its been a while.
Mangled06 on
I’m sure I remember a judge declaring it “misadventure”. Sure was.
alwayshungry1001 on
Inside job. He got too close to something or someone he shouldn’t have. Threatened to “go public”. Six put an end to that, then influenced the inquiry.
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The 2010 death of Gareth Williams, a Welsh GCHQ codebreaker on secondment to MI6, remains one of the most bizarre and disturbing unsolved cases in modern British history. His naked body was found inside a red North Face holdall, which was padlocked from the outside, in the bathtub of his London flat. The heating was on full blast in August.
This case absolutely haunts me. I remember reading about it when it first broke, and the whole “self-inflicted accident” thing just never sat right. How do you even padlock yourself into a bag like that from the *outside*? And the heat being cranked up in August? It just screams something far more sinister. I stumbled across [**https://youtu.be/znFGO3I2YDI?si=UGoqOiLY6mnmYbNN**](https://youtu.be/znFGO3I2YDI?si=UGoqOiLY6mnmYbNN) earlier today and it goes into some really convincing theories about why MI6 might have wanted this case closed quickly, and the potential involvement of foreign agents.
The details about him investigating Russian money laundering really makes you wonder if it was a warning shot from a rival intelligence agency. It’s truly one of those mysteries where the official explanation feels more like a cover story than the truth.
Heck of an accident.
/s
I remember watching a show about this one, was certainly a foreign intelligence message being sent, they clinically srubbed his house of any evidence at all, so the police found absolutely nothing, except him in a zipped bag, and his sister said he was a maths genius analyst or something, and there was no way he would lock himself in there without an escape plan (they said he had a fetish for being in small spaces). Correct me if i’m wrong though, its been a while.
I’m sure I remember a judge declaring it “misadventure”. Sure was.
Inside job. He got too close to something or someone he shouldn’t have. Threatened to “go public”. Six put an end to that, then influenced the inquiry.