Welcome to Season 5, Episode 21 of They Walk Among Us, a podcast dedicated to UK true crime.

This episode contains distressing themes, explicit language and descriptions of violence. This podcast

is intended for a mature audience. Listener caution is advised. A dead body was found in Harrow, Greater London at the end of May 1993.

The officers at the scene quickly came to the conclusion that it was death by misadventure.

The man 37-year-old Christopher Dunn was a librarian who worked at Halsden Library in Brent,

seven miles from his home on Byron Way in Wheelstone.

He was discovered in bed.

The death was later ruled undetermined, but detectives thought it looked more like a tragic

accident.

Forensic analysis was kept to a bare minimum, and with little scrutiny the police seemed

to believe this was how the events unfolded.

After all, the officers pondered,

Christopher was dressed in a studded leather harness and a belt.

It was assumed that Christopher died during an act of sadomasochistic bondage.

However, the circumstances of his death and the initial determination of how he died made little

sense. He couldn't have restrained himself. Also, the peculiar burn marks to his testicles

perhaps might have raised suspicion, along with the fact money was withdrawn from his bank account after his death.

But as Christopher Dunn was gay, there seemed to be one more reason that persuaded the

investigating officers of the theory that he lost his life while participating in a sex act gone wrong.

Reports of his death barely graced the newspaper pages across Britain.

While it no doubt left his friends and family bereft,

at the time news of the discovery was not known to the broader public.

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