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Martin Shipton

Welsh spy whose body was found in a bag was killed by the Kremlin, claims ex MP

A secret service employee whose naked body was found inside a bag that was padlocked from the outside was murdered on the orders of the Kremlin, according to an ex-Home Office Minister and a Russian spy who defected to Britain.

The death of Anglesey-born Gareth Williams, 31, in 2010 was ruled by a coroner to be an unlawful killing by person or persons unknown.

Williams, who was a child prodigy in mathematics, was employed by GCHQ, the UK’s eavesdropping agency based at Cheltenham. His decomposing body was found inside a bag in the bathroom of his London flat. At the time of his death, he was on secondment to MI6 and had been involved in investigating financial corruption involving Russia.

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