The strange case of the spy in the bag: Is it time for a review?
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The Times
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🗓️ 12 February 2021
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
A decade after an MI6 agent was found dead in a North Face holdall, the detective who led the inquiry wants a forensic case review.
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Guest: David Collins, Northern Editor for The Sunday Times.
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| 0:00.0 | Down Jamaica Way, there's an ex-chief superintendent of the Met who once worked on a case that |
| 0:14.5 | is not quite prepared to let go of. |
| 0:17.2 | Was Gareth a part of a state hit by Russia? |
| 0:20.7 | Was he assassinated by a hostile nation? |
| 0:23.8 | Was he killed by a lover? |
| 0:25.5 | Was it suicide? |
| 0:29.0 | The retired officer believes advances in DNA profiling could finally solve the decade-old |
| 0:35.6 | spy in the bag, Riddle. |
| 0:37.5 | Here's a view as one of the most experienced detectives in the history of the Met, ten |
| 0:43.4 | years on. |
| 0:44.4 | Why not take another look? |
| 0:47.9 | He says it's time to look again at the death of code-breaker Gareth Williams, whose body |
| 0:53.4 | was found in a North Face Holder. |
| 0:56.7 | For listening to stories of our times and the times in the Sunday times, I'm David |
| 1:00.3 | Aronovich. |
| 1:01.3 | Today, the strange case of the spy in the bag is it time for a review. |
| 1:19.5 | My name is David Collins, I'm the Northern Editor for the Sunday Times. |
| 1:23.7 | David Collins has covered the story of the death of 31-year-old Gareth Williams right |
| 1:28.5 | from the beginning. |
| 1:29.5 | I'm an investigative reporter. |
| 1:31.8 | I've been at the Sunday Times for six years and used to be a member of the Insight Team, |
| 1:37.8 | and now I'm based in Manchester. |
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