Thursday 24 May 2012

Gareth Williams: Credible Evidence

BBC Radio 4's The Report returned to the Gareth Williams' story this evening.
The main assertion was that it would have been far easier than has been assumed for Williams to lock himself in the holdall, so it could well have been a solo sex act gone wrong.
This may seem like a minor point, but it's not. 
Earlier this month the coroner submitted an open "narrative verdict" suggesting a third party was "probably" involved and that Williams was "unlawfully killed", as evidence had been submitted that it was a near impossibility he could have locked himself inside.
Even though the keys were found inside the bag beneath his body!
During a reconstruction a yoga specialist "tried more than 100 times without success" - the Report journalist mastered it in five. 
Dr Richard Shepherd, who conducted one of the post-mortem examinations, told The Report;
"Now that we have credible evidence that it is possible to lock the bag from the inside, whilst it doesn't rule out homicide, clearly the chances of this as a solitary sexual act have to be considered in any future investigation by the Metropolitan Police."
Once again it looks to any rational observer that Gareth Williams' death was far more mundane and prosaic than the endless baseless media conjecture has suggested, and than the conspiracy theorists so dearly want to believe.
This case should not rest on the coroner and Williams' family's prudery and prejudices, and how they find other people's sex lives incomprehensible or unseemly.

4 comments:

  1. Wanking in a bag, Fagburn - how mundane!

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  2. Why bother to put the holdall in the bath, and turn up the heating? Did he want his decomposing bodily fluids to drain away rather than seep to the floor below ... I think a shower curtain was drawn around the bath -- why do that?

    Could there be more than 1 set of keys, do you think?

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    1. If you look at the photos of the reconstruction and above, it looks like putting the bag in the bath would have stopped it falling over...

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  3. It is quite telling to see how many would rather construct and/or believe in such a highly preposterous scenario than just admit that the obvious and mundane sexual explanation is what most likely happened.

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