MI6 man found dead in his flat

[easty]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-11084086

What's peoples thoughts on this? Seems a bit odd that they say he'd been there about 2 weeks, working for Intelligence Service you think the alarm would have been raised sooner?

It first came out that he had been repeatedly stabbed but, after post-mortem, thats now said to be untrue (according to sky news anyway). They're also now saying his death was linked to his personal life not his work. Is it odd that they're saying that already despite the post-mortem, apparently, not being able to explain how he died?

I don't know what I think about it yet, though if he was murdered because of his job I would fully expect that it would be coverred up and blamed on his personal life.

[ArabHibee]

Found in a sportbag. Nice mates!:bitchy:

[easty]

Found in a sportbag. Nice mates!:bitchy:

But was he found in a sports bag? Other reports say he was found in the bath.

Also on the ITV news earlier it said something about needing an eye scan to get into the house??

I've also read that the house is owned by a little known company registered in the Caymans...

[ArabHibee]

But was he found in a sports bag? Other reports say he was found in the bath.

Also on the ITV news earlier it said something about needing an eye scan to get into the house??

I've also read that the house is owned by a little known company registered in the Caymans...

That's what I heard on the news at 7 this morning anyway. Not seen the news since this morning.

Just watching the 10pm news and they've just said his body was found in a holdall.

We'll never find out what happened. They're not going to admit it if he was killed for being a spy are they?

[Woody1985]

The metro says that he was found in a holdall, in his bath and that he was likely to be killed by someone he knew on a personal level as there was no forced entry.

I suspect he's been bumped off either by our own services or by another country. We've all seen the Bourne/Bond films etc but when you see things like the Litvenenko, the Arab boy killed recently by Israel and now this it's seems a bit surreal but intriguing at the same time :greengrin

On a slight tangent, I read a story about a guy on one of the small islands in Scotland somewhere whom had developed or close to developing a cheap renewable energy source that would be cost the country billions in tax revenues who died in mysterious circumstances. I might try and look that out.

[SlickShoes]

Something not right about this. If a spy dies most of the time you don't hear about it, i have no idea why they would release all this info on how this man died and was found in his bath and what not in a bag.

He is probably alive and working undercover in another country and some other poor sod was in the bag, now he officially does not exist, which makes things a lot easier to cover up.

[s.a.m]

The metro says that he was found in a holdall, in his bath and that he was likely to be killed by someone he knew on a personal level as there was no forced entry.

I suspect he's been bumped off either by our own services or by another country. We've all seen the Bourne/Bond films etc but when you see things like the Litvenenko, the Arab boy killed recently by Israel and now this it's seems a bit surreal but intriguing at the same time :greengrin

On a slight tangent, I read a story about a guy on one of the small islands in Scotland somewhere whom had developed or close to developing a cheap renewable energy source that would be cost the country billions in tax revenues who died in mysterious circumstances. I might try and look that out.

Don't know anything about that one but, IIRC, it is acknowledged that the government and nuclear industry set out to discredit Professor Stephen Salter's 'ducks', a wave power energy programme developed in Edinburgh in the 70s. Funding was withdrawn from the working group not long before the device was at an operational stage, and ready to go to sea, and the minutes of the meeting where the decision was taken were classified. At the time, the government were trying to convince the public that new nuclear power stations needed built. I think I read recently that work on the ducks is ongoing.

[poolman]

Police say they are treating his death as suspicious :tee hee:

[Peevemor]

It must have been an Adeidas hold-all. :agree: