:01:07. > :01:13.His job was to help safeguard his country. Working for the Security
:01:13. > :01:18.Services crabbing codes. So how did he end up dead, locked in a bag in
:01:18. > :01:23.a bath? I think the big clue here is there's no forensics left around
:01:23. > :01:28.the bath surrounding it, so the bag's in the bath, there's nothing
:01:28. > :01:30.on the bag, there's nothing. family believe someone in the
:01:30. > :01:34.Security Services may have been involved. We investigate the detail
:01:34. > :01:38.from an extraordinary inquest. think there's a possibility there's
:01:38. > :01:44.been some kind of clean-up or cover-up by MI6.
:01:44. > :01:50.Today, the coroner said on the balance of probabilities, Gareth
:01:50. > :01:55.was killed unlawfully. It's exacerbated by the failure of his
:01:55. > :01:58.employers at MI6 to take even the most basic inquiries as to his
:01:58. > :02:02.whereabouts and welfare. investigation will refocus and
:02:02. > :02:05.actively pursue all the evidence heard and all the new lines of
:02:05. > :02:15.inquiry. But will we ever know what happened
:02:15. > :02:22.
:02:22. > :02:26.For 20 months, questions have been asked about the death of Gareth
:02:26. > :02:30.Williams in the top floor flat of this London house.
:02:30. > :02:36.Evidence at his inquest has shed a lot of light on his life-and-death,
:02:36. > :02:39.but there are still some crucial questions which remain unanswered.
:02:39. > :02:43.It's likely now there had to be another person involved when Gareth
:02:43. > :02:49.was locked in a bag. So who is this mysterious person? What part did
:02:49. > :02:54.they play in Gareth's death? Why hasn't anyone been identified?
:02:54. > :02:58.don't believe it would be possible for a single person to put Gareth
:02:58. > :03:02.into that bag in the neat and tidy way in which he was found.
:03:02. > :03:07.evidence may well be left behind at any crime, but the trick of course
:03:07. > :03:15.is finding the evidence. And why did MI6 take seven days to report
:03:15. > :03:19.Gareth missing from work? I've been looking into garreth's
:03:19. > :03:24.death at this London flat for more than 12 months -- Gareth's death.
:03:24. > :03:28.I'm calling from BBC Wales. We are doing a programme on Gareth
:03:28. > :03:32.Williams' death, called Week In Week Out.
:03:32. > :03:36.Last year, our programme raised serious questions about the
:03:36. > :03:45.circumstances of Gareth's death death. After we spoke to experts
:03:45. > :03:47.and family friends. I think that it's really important here to have
:03:47. > :03:57.everything investigated into. My personal feeling is that probably
:03:57. > :03:57.
:03:57. > :04:03.the police have maybe hit a brick wall in terms of this personal life.
:04:03. > :04:08.I also met with someone who worked undercover for MI5 and he expressed
:04:08. > :04:11.concerns about Gareth's death too. What's significant about the bag
:04:11. > :04:16.being inside the bath? To me, that would suggest someone had intended
:04:16. > :04:20.to take the body and dump it somewhere else. They've been
:04:20. > :04:27.disturbed or spooked so they haven't come back for it.
:04:27. > :04:30.The death of the MI6 officer from Anglesey has been subject to
:04:30. > :04:34.intense media speculation, innuendo concerning his private life and
:04:34. > :04:38.conjecture as the what is work for the Secret Services involved. The
:04:38. > :04:43.inquest was meant to draw a line under all that speculation, but
:04:44. > :04:48.evidence has emphasised a secret life that perhaps very few knew
:04:48. > :04:52.about. The inquest has failed to answer
:04:52. > :04:56.some fundamental questions. The police investigation has been
:04:56. > :05:05.plagued with difficulties and we'll be asking if things could have and
:05:05. > :05:10.should have been done differently. 31-year-old Gareth was laid to rest
:05:11. > :05:16.in September 2010. The Head of MI6 even attended his funeral on
:05:16. > :05:20.Anglesey and described Gareth as a hugely talented person who did
:05:20. > :05:25.really valuable work in the cause of national security.
:05:25. > :05:30.Ever since then, Gareth's parents have been left wondering if that
:05:30. > :05:33.work might have had something to do with the death of their son from
:05:33. > :05:38.Valley 260 miles away in a flat in London.
:05:38. > :05:48.It's believed Gareth was recruited to GCHQ in Cheltenham after his
:05:48. > :05:48.
:05:48. > :05:51.talents for playing online games were spotted. From GCHQ, Gareth was
:05:51. > :05:56.seconded to work here at the headquarters of MI6 for three years.
:05:56. > :06:01.But at the inquest, we heard from Gareth's sister, Ceri, who said
:06:01. > :06:05.he'd become unhappy with his job in London.
:06:05. > :06:08.He disliked office culture, post- work drinks, flash cars,
:06:08. > :06:13.competitions and the rat race. He even spoke of friction in the
:06:13. > :06:18.office. The job wasn't quite what he expected. He encountered more
:06:18. > :06:22.red tape than he was comfortable with.
:06:22. > :06:27.Ceri said that Gareth had asked to leave MI6 and was planning on
:06:27. > :06:33.returning to Cheltenham and his work at gch CHQ.
:06:33. > :06:37.-- GCHQ. We met his former landlady in Cheltenham, Jenny Elliott and
:06:37. > :06:41.she said Gareth calmed to ask if he could have his former lodgings back
:06:41. > :06:48.and said he hoped to move back in at the beginning of September 2010.
:06:48. > :06:52.But he never did. His body was discovered just days earlier.
:06:52. > :06:56.Gareth, whose punctuality has been likened to a swift clock, failed to
:06:56. > :07:01.show up here to chair a meeting on August 16th. It wasn't until a
:07:01. > :07:06.colleague eventually called his family that the alarm was raised
:07:06. > :07:12.seven days after that missed meeting. Then, the police became
:07:12. > :07:17.involved. PC John Gallagher was despatched to
:07:17. > :07:22.Mr Williams' top floor flat on Monday August 23rd.
:07:22. > :07:29.The police video shot later that night shows black squares placed on
:07:29. > :07:36.the floor to prevent contamination. PC Gallagher told the invest he
:07:36. > :07:41.found a mobile phone and two SIM cards laid out on a table and his
:07:41. > :07:46.attention was drawn to to a red ladies wig. By the sofa, a laptop
:07:46. > :07:51.and another phone in. The spare room were boxes and yellow holdalls
:07:51. > :07:55.containing �20,000 worth of designer women's clothing and shoes.
:07:55. > :08:00.Into the master bedroom, clothes were neatly piled on the bed, but a
:08:00. > :08:04.duvet and dressing gown were uncharacteristically strewn on the
:08:04. > :08:10.floor. The inquest was shown a 3D graphic
:08:10. > :08:17.of flat 4 36 Alderly Street and where, in the ensweet bathroom, a
:08:17. > :08:24.red North Face bag was discovered. PC Gallagher managed to lift it but
:08:24. > :08:28.became suspicious when red liquid seeped from the bag. A detective
:08:28. > :08:32.was called to this address and he made a small three inch incision
:08:32. > :08:40.into the bag and discovered Gareth's body. The flat was sealed,
:08:40. > :08:44.this was now a crime scene. The police initially described his
:08:44. > :08:48.death as suspicious, but until they could tell how he died, they
:08:48. > :08:53.couldn't say for sure if he'd been murdered or whether there might be
:08:53. > :09:00.another explanation for his death. The postmortem examination would be
:09:00. > :09:04.crucial. Pathologist Dr Richard Shepherd gave evidence at the
:09:04. > :09:09.inquest and afterwards agreed to discuss his findings with me.
:09:09. > :09:13.I started looking for things that perhaps my own experience in
:09:13. > :09:18.restraint may have shown, areas and patterns of bruising that might be
:09:18. > :09:22.present and there were none. Which lead z you to conclude what? He put
:09:22. > :09:26.up no significant struck.. It's possible he may have been
:09:26. > :09:31.threatened and forced to comply without having force applied, but
:09:31. > :09:36.in the end, an unwilling adult being forced into a bag won't slip
:09:36. > :09:38.into that bag with no injuries, they will eventually realise the
:09:38. > :09:44.danger and will begin to fight and struggle and injuries will be
:09:44. > :09:49.caused. The question of more importance is how the coroner is
:09:49. > :09:54.considering, the "how" leading up to him being in the bag is of more
:09:54. > :10:00.significance. We can speculate on a whole series of possibilities for
:10:00. > :10:03.why he died and it's likely that he asphyxiated if he wasn't poisoned,
:10:03. > :10:09.it's likely to bes a fix yailted. One of the possibilities is that
:10:09. > :10:14.Gareth was drugged or poisoned before he ended up in the bag.
:10:14. > :10:19.Toxicology research found small traces of alcohol and the party
:10:19. > :10:22.drug GHB but they were tiny amounts that could have occurred naturally
:10:22. > :10:26.through decomposition, but there's no evidence Gareth used drugs and
:10:26. > :10:30.he was largely teetotal. Three pathologists carried out postmortem
:10:31. > :10:34.examinations, all three failed to establish a cause of death. They
:10:35. > :10:37.agreed that as fixiation or poisoning the most likely causes,
:10:37. > :10:43.but their examinations were hampered.
:10:43. > :10:49.The gaps that we had are the time that he remained in his flat and
:10:49. > :10:54.the body decomposing. That caused some difficulties. Minor scratches
:10:54. > :10:58.to the skin could have been obliterated. Other features can
:10:58. > :11:04.sometimes be very, very subtle and decomposition will obliterate them.
:11:04. > :11:08.That's the major hurdle we all had to jump.
:11:08. > :11:11.Another factor which accelerated decomposition was the temperature
:11:11. > :11:15.inside Gareth's top floor flat. Oddly, the heating was on in the
:11:15. > :11:20.middle of summer. We have checked weather records for London and the
:11:20. > :11:24.average day time temperature was nearly 21 degrees.
:11:24. > :11:27.With no definitive cause of death, the police had a problem. They
:11:27. > :11:31.began to explore other possibilities.
:11:31. > :11:35.Crucial to explaining Gareth's death is how he'd ended up being
:11:35. > :11:39.padlocked inside a bag. He was found naked in a foetal position,
:11:40. > :11:46.electrics folds, hands on chest, his face was calm. Beneath his body
:11:46. > :11:51.were the keys to the padlock. A police graphic animation shows
:11:51. > :11:55.how the bag was done up, a padlock faced through the eyelet and
:11:55. > :11:58.fastener, sealing the bag tightly shut.
:11:58. > :12:03.The death detective leading the inquiry said she believed a third
:12:03. > :12:07.party had been involved in Gareth's death or placing his body in the
:12:07. > :12:11.bath. Detectives asked two experts to see
:12:11. > :12:18.if it was possible for garreth to have got inside the bag on his own
:12:18. > :12:22.and padlock it shut from inside the bag -- Gareth. The bag was lying in
:12:22. > :12:26.the bath. I had to put my hands on the side of the bath to support my
:12:26. > :12:29.weight, bearing in mind I had to go in head and shoulder first so I
:12:29. > :12:34.couldn't just climb in and climb down, I had to put my feet on the
:12:34. > :12:38.wall, my hands on the side to support me, lower myself into the
:12:38. > :12:42.bath and then slide my head and shoulders in and then I really did
:12:42. > :12:48.struggle, as you will see from videos released to the media. It's
:12:48. > :12:51.very, very difficult to get in. It took me quite a while to get
:12:51. > :12:56.comfortable, well at no stage was I comfortable, and then close the bag
:12:56. > :13:01.as best I could in the bath. What about locking it? Not a chance.
:13:01. > :13:05.Locking the bag from the inside in a confined area, you can't access
:13:05. > :13:09.the lock from the outside. You can pull the material together, but
:13:09. > :13:15.your arms, when you're inside the bag, your arms are on the chest and
:13:15. > :13:18.there is no room to manoeuvre. You actually can't get a lock through.
:13:18. > :13:24.There's no hole to get a lock through so it becomes near
:13:24. > :13:28.impossible. So you proved it was possible to put yourself into the
:13:28. > :13:34.bag and to zip it shut? That's correct. To have the lock fastened
:13:34. > :13:38.from the outside? I couldn't do it. I'm not an escapologist, but I
:13:38. > :13:42.think even Houdini would have a problem with this one. If the
:13:42. > :13:44.likelihood of Gareth being able the padlock himself in the bag was
:13:44. > :13:49.remote, someone else must have been involved.
:13:49. > :13:53.I believe that he was assisted by a third party into that bath. I don't
:13:53. > :13:57.believe he died in that bath, I believe he died elsewhere in the
:13:57. > :14:03.flat. Again, I would go back to the forensic evidence. No prints, no
:14:03. > :14:09.forensics around the bath. I don't think he would think about suicide.
:14:09. > :14:14.Again, the sex game, the evidence we have seen doesn't really cover
:14:14. > :14:19.anything. I think it potentially was murder.
:14:19. > :14:25.The police revealed at the inquest that they had found tiny fragments
:14:25. > :14:29.of DNA on the zip fasteners, but they've been unable to identify who
:14:29. > :14:34.that belongs to. There was also DNA on the bag
:14:34. > :14:41.handles and a green towel and two hairs found on Gareth's thumb, but
:14:41. > :14:45.forensic experts have been unable to identify any of it.
:14:45. > :14:48.Crispin Black is an intelligence analyst and a former adviser to the
:14:48. > :14:55.Government. He's been following the inquest for us.
:14:55. > :14:59.There seems to be a suspicious dirt of DNA. The obvious conclusion from
:14:59. > :15:05.that is that the flat has been prepared in some way, cleaned in
:15:05. > :15:11.some way. And that you suggest could have been done by the
:15:11. > :15:16.services? I think there's a possibility that there's been some
:15:16. > :15:22.kind of clean-up or cover-up by MI6. I mean, that's a clear possibility.
:15:22. > :15:26.I mean one thing I'm pretty sure of, and I'm sure everybody else would
:15:26. > :15:29.be sure about it when they think about it, is that the police are
:15:29. > :15:32.unlikely to have been the first people round to that flat.
:15:32. > :15:37.With little evidence that's helped the police, there were no
:15:37. > :15:41.fingerprints belonging to anyone else in Gareth's flat, no signs of
:15:41. > :15:45.a break-in or disturbance. The police began to delve into his
:15:45. > :15:50.private life. As well as details of addresses and women's shoes found
:15:50. > :15:55.in his flat, detectives said there had been an unconfirmed report of
:15:55. > :16:01.Gareth at a gay bar in Vauxhall yards from his place of work at MI6.
:16:01. > :16:04.They revealed he'd made limited access to bondage and escaped from
:16:04. > :16:07.bondage websites on his phone. Gareth's family have been
:16:07. > :16:12.distraught at the emphasis being placed on his private life. A close
:16:12. > :16:16.friend told the inquest and our programme last year that he was not
:16:16. > :16:25.a transvestite and would have been able to confide in her.
:16:25. > :16:30.It's just out of character for Gareth to me to be honest with you.
:16:30. > :16:33.That Gareth was into anything like that. Because I truly do feel that
:16:33. > :16:39.he would have been quite open about it, to be honest with you, because
:16:39. > :16:45.we spoke about a lot of personal things. I'm very, very open-minded
:16:45. > :16:48.and I know he is as well. I wouldn't have frowned upon anything
:16:48. > :16:52.like that and I think he would have felt that he'd have been able to
:16:52. > :16:57.tell me and his sister as well. At the hearing came an unexpected
:16:57. > :17:00.revelation from his former landlady. He said in a statement that she and
:17:00. > :17:04.her husband had to use their spare key to enter his flat after hearing
:17:04. > :17:08.his cries for help in the middle of the night.
:17:08. > :17:11.She and her husband discovered Gareth on his bed in just his boxer
:17:11. > :17:16.shorts. His hands were tied to the head board. He told them he was
:17:16. > :17:22.just messing about. In a statement, Mrs Elliott said it was likely to
:17:22. > :17:27.be sexual rather than escapology. A huge amount of detail has been
:17:27. > :17:32.coming out at the inquest, but for every question that is answered, it
:17:32. > :17:38.appears there are several more. One of the key questions for his family
:17:38. > :17:42.is why it took so long for the alarm to be raised.
:17:42. > :17:47.Between August 11th and 15th, Gareth was spotted on various CCTV
:17:47. > :17:51.cameras shopping in South West London at stores including Harrods
:17:51. > :17:53.and Harvey Nicholls. He'd just returned from America where he
:17:53. > :17:57.attended a technical security conference in Las Vegas and
:17:57. > :18:02.afterwards he holidayed in the States. Gareth had been due to
:18:03. > :18:06.chair a meeting at MI6 on Monday August 16th. But he didn't show up.
:18:07. > :18:11.That evening, he was due to meet a colleague from GCHQ who was
:18:11. > :18:17.interested in taking over his flat, but there was no answer. Four days
:18:17. > :18:20.later, Gareth was due at a meeting and again didn't attend. It was
:18:20. > :18:24.uncharacteristic. He'd never taken sick leave or failed to turn up for
:18:24. > :18:31.work. I find the idea that nobody knew or
:18:31. > :18:33.raised the alarm about his seven- day absence from work unconvincing,
:18:33. > :18:37.indeed unbelievable. Think what we are being asked to believe, that
:18:37. > :18:41.somebody on attachment to the UK's foreign Intelligence Service living
:18:41. > :18:48.in a flat a few hundred yards from its headquarters can just not turn
:18:48. > :18:52.up to work for a week and nobody appears to be concerned or worried.
:18:52. > :18:56.Gareth's line manager at MI6 gave evidence at the inquest from behind
:18:56. > :19:01.a screen and was identified only as witness G.
:19:01. > :19:04.He admitted Gareth's failure to turn up for work on Monday August
:19:04. > :19:08.16th was unusual. By Friday, he checked the list of suggested
:19:08. > :19:14.actions for such an eventuality which included calling hospitals.
:19:14. > :19:18.But he did nothing. It wasn't until Monday 23rd August
:19:18. > :19:28.that witness G spoke to Gareth's sister and the police were finally
:19:28. > :19:30.
:19:30. > :19:34.Despite repeated failures to raise the alarm, witness G was never
:19:34. > :19:38.disciplined. A senior manager at MI6 apologised
:19:38. > :19:43.and admitted that the delay in finding Gareth's body would have
:19:43. > :19:51.hampered the police investigation. The delay I think screws up the
:19:51. > :19:55.forensic evidence. We've heard from a number of pathologists. They all
:19:55. > :20:00.are pretty inconclusive or have slightly different opinions and
:20:00. > :20:04.they, or at least one of them says it's quite difficult to test for
:20:04. > :20:07.various substances after a body has been in a bag for so long in a
:20:07. > :20:12.heated flat. I think normal people reading about this unquest or
:20:12. > :20:18.attended it would come to the same conclusion as me. Somebody has
:20:18. > :20:22.interfered with the evidence so we are not seeing the full picture.
:20:22. > :20:27.The police haven't always had direct access to evidence either or
:20:27. > :20:29.even witnesses. Another part of the Met called SO15,
:20:30. > :20:35.whose officers have high level security clearance, were tasked
:20:35. > :20:45.with seizing some of Gareth's IT equipment and other items. SO15 and
:20:45. > :20:52.the regular detectives had been unable to check it all for clues.
:20:52. > :20:57.Also, it was SO15 who der screwed Gareth's colleagues at GCHQ and MI6,
:20:57. > :21:03.not the officer leading the investigation at the Met --
:21:03. > :21:08.interviewed. One of the weird things is the person leading this
:21:08. > :21:10.investigation, DCI, Jackie Sebire hasn't been able to talk to
:21:11. > :21:14.everyone. I think she's taken things on trust, some of the
:21:14. > :21:20.statements appear to have been given not entirely accurately, but
:21:20. > :21:25.I think one investigating a murder, she should be given access to
:21:25. > :21:27.everybody that knew him or everybody the police think should
:21:27. > :21:31.be interviewed. Detective Superintendent Michael Broster of
:21:31. > :21:37.SO15 told the inquest there was no evidence linking Gareth's death to
:21:37. > :21:43.his job at MI6. On the last day of evidence at the inquest, Detective
:21:43. > :21:47.Superintendent Broster admitted someone from MI6 could have been
:21:47. > :21:53.involved in Gareth death. Let's examine what we know about Gareth's
:21:53. > :21:58.work. He was a code breaker. He'd won awards for his work at GCHQ
:21:58. > :22:03.which had been described as world- class. On secondment to MI6, he was
:22:03. > :22:06.operationally active in the UK as part of a four-man team. He did
:22:06. > :22:09.have clearance to access sensitive information but was considered a
:22:09. > :22:14.low risk. He's brought from a country
:22:14. > :22:19.attached to MI6 and just left alone. Now, that's A not good man
:22:19. > :22:23.management and B, if I were a person, an enemy of this country
:22:23. > :22:28.seeking access to SIS, I would be on the lookout for vulnerable young
:22:28. > :22:34.men brought hear to accomplish very secret technical tasks and are just
:22:34. > :22:38.left. A small number of times, Gareth had
:22:38. > :22:42.accessed MI6's database without authorisation. The details were not
:22:42. > :22:46.revealed, but an anonymous witness said Gareth theoretically could
:22:46. > :22:52.have been vulnerable to hostile and maligned parties. There was no
:22:52. > :23:02.evidence of that. What about Gareth's state of mind when he
:23:02. > :23:17.
:23:17. > :23:21.died? This is the call to the Without the inquest, she
:23:21. > :23:25.contradicted herself claiming she didn't know of any concerns about
:23:25. > :23:30.Gareth's welfare -- at the inquest. And he did appear to be planning
:23:30. > :23:34.for the future. He know he had been due to meet his sister Ceri two Kay
:23:34. > :23:38.days after his body was found and had been planning a walking or
:23:38. > :23:45.hiking trip to Switzerland. With so many inconsistencies in what we
:23:45. > :23:54.know about Gareth, it's made the met police's job even harder.
:23:55. > :24:01.They've investigated callers to Gareth's flat who turned out to be
:24:01. > :24:05.insignificant. A partial DNA profile was found on
:24:05. > :24:08.Gareth's hand. For 18 months, police hoped this could provide an
:24:08. > :24:14.important breakthrough in their investigation, but the company
:24:14. > :24:19.analysing the DNA, LGC Forensics, had made a mistake. It turned out
:24:19. > :24:23.that the DNA belonged to a scientist involved in the case.
:24:23. > :24:28.LGC declined to be interviewed, but we spoke to a forensics expert who
:24:28. > :24:31.said the false hope given by that DNA could have impacted in the
:24:32. > :24:36.investigation in the early stages. It can mean that instead of lacking
:24:36. > :24:40.in one direction, you are looking in another, you think you have got
:24:40. > :24:45.a particular lead which isn't real. That can cause problems. But in a
:24:45. > :24:49.case like this where the police are particularly patient and the
:24:49. > :24:54.laboratories involved are doing as much as they can to look at the
:24:54. > :24:57.evidence as closely as they can, ultimately, there probably wasn't
:24:57. > :25:02.much overall impact in this particular case. So what do we know
:25:02. > :25:05.about the crime scene? Fragments of DNA have been found and it appears
:25:05. > :25:09.at least two people have been in Gareth's flat, but we don't know
:25:09. > :25:15.who and we don't know when and it appears almost impossible that
:25:15. > :25:19.Gareth locked himself in the bag. It's possible that the other person
:25:19. > :25:23.who was there, if there was another person there, was forensically
:25:23. > :25:28.aware, in other words they were taking precautions to avoid leaving
:25:28. > :25:32.any kind of trace evidence behind them. It's also possible that the
:25:32. > :25:36.person wasn't necessarily forensically aware but then just
:25:36. > :25:39.lucky. The police investigation has been hampered by theys and missed
:25:39. > :25:42.opportunities. It's meant vital evidence has been lost or
:25:42. > :25:46.unavailable to them. But there's still a chance of a breakthrough.
:25:46. > :25:53.After eight days of sometimes painful evidence, today Gareth's
:25:54. > :25:57.family arrived to hear the verdict of coroner Fiona Wilcox. One by one,
:25:57. > :26:00.she went through various theories. During a two hour verdict, the
:26:00. > :26:03.coroner said on the balance of probability, Gareth was unlawfully
:26:03. > :26:06.killed but delivered a narrative verdict because of insufficient
:26:06. > :26:11.evidence. But she also says she was satisfied
:26:11. > :26:15.a third party locked and placed the bag containing Gareth into the bath.
:26:15. > :26:19.In her summary, she said she believes this was criminally
:26:19. > :26:23.mediated. I've always been satisfied that a third party may
:26:23. > :26:28.have been involved in his death and the coroner's confirmed that in her
:26:28. > :26:33.finding today. The inquest has raised several new lines of inquiry
:26:33. > :26:40.and the investigation will now refocus and actively pursue all the
:26:40. > :26:45.evidence heard and all the new lines of inquiry. Our grief is
:26:45. > :26:49.exacerbated by the failure of his employers of MI6 to take even the
:26:49. > :26:53.most basic inquiries as to his whereabouts and welfare which any
:26:53. > :26:58.reasonable employer would have taken. We are also extremely
:26:58. > :27:03.disappointed over the reluctance and failure of MI6 to make
:27:03. > :27:07.available relevant information. We should like to ask the
:27:07. > :27:10.Metropolitan Police commissioner Hogan-Howe to look into and review
:27:11. > :27:15.how this investigation will proceed in the light of the total
:27:15. > :27:22.inadequacies of the SO15 investigation into MI6 highlighted
:27:22. > :27:29.during this inquest. Gareth was and always will be a
:27:29. > :27:34.special and adored son and brother. We miss him every single day and
:27:34. > :27:40.cannot describe the depth of the sorrow his absence leaves in our
:27:40. > :27:44.lives. We love you, Gareth, and we will
:27:44. > :27:47.treasure your memory eternally. It's been an extraordinary inquest.
:27:47. > :27:53.Gareth's family have had to listen to disturbing and intimate evidence
:27:54. > :28:01.as every aspect of his life has been picked over. Body was found in
:28:01. > :28:06.a padlocked bag in a London flat has been found he was once found
:28:06. > :28:12.tied to his bed. Evidence that could be important only came to
:28:12. > :28:16.light just yesterday. The leading detective, Jackie Sebire, said she
:28:16. > :28:18.hadn't even seen memory sticking belonging to Mr Williams that MI6
:28:18. > :28:23.found... The list of unanswered questions
:28:23. > :28:27.goes on and on. Today, the coroner said there was no evidence gather
:28:27. > :28:32.was killed by MI6 colleagues but it remains a legitimate line of
:28:32. > :28:37.inquiry. She also said that the evidence of Gareth's boss at MI6
:28:37. > :28:41.concerning the delay in reporting him missing stretched the bounds of
:28:41. > :28:44.credibility. The detective leading the