London: MI6 spy Gareth Williams, who reportedly hacked into restricted information about the former US President Bill Clinton, has been found dead.
The code breaker was discovered inside a padlocked bag in a bathtub at his London home in 2010, sparking a real-life mystery worthy of any 007 thriller.
Theories about the maths genius, with a taste for cross-dressing included that he was killed by foreign spooks, eliminated by fellow agents and suffocated when a sex game went disastrously wrong.
However, on Monday it claimed that he illegally obtained a guest list for an event attended by Bill Clinton as a favour for a friend who was going.
A source told The Sun on Monday: “The Clinton diary hack came at a time when Williams’ work with America was of the most sensitive nature.”
“It was a diplomatic nightmare for Sir John Sawers, the new director of MI6 at the time,” the source added.
In 2013 after a three-year investigation – and despite a coroner’s ruling that Williams was killed unlawfully – the Metropolitan Police decided he had locked himself inside the red holdall and no one else was involved.
MI6 spy Gareth Williams hacked into restricted information about former US President Bill Clinton, it has been claimed.
Earlier this month, it was revealed that detectives who investigated the mysterious death believe he was murdered and that his killers then broke back in through a skylight to cover their tracks.
The claim centres on the revelation that part of the forensic equipment placed in the flat after the body was found was moved – despite the fact the building was under armed police guard.
The theory supports his family’s suspicions he was murdered by ‘agents specialising in the dark arts of the secret services’.
