Spy in the bag case ‘may never be solved’

MI6 codebreaker Gareth Williams was probably killed but the “spy in the bag” case might never be solved after mistakes by investigators, an inquest has heard.

The deceased’s relatives attacked failures by secret services and police after coroner Dr Fiona Wilcox ruled “many agencies fell short” in their investigation of the holdall death riddle.

She said she was sure a third party locked the 31-year-old mathematics prodigy inside the red holdall, probably while he was alive.