Gareth Williams Murder Update: Nobody Knows Anything

The plot thickens!
Or maybe it's thinning.
On Wednesday Gareth Williams' murder was alleged by several media to be some Cold War style hit.
The Sun asked aloud; "Did al-Qaeda bump off suitcase spook?"
Yesterday The Sun hinted that his death was linked to Williams supposed homosexuality.
And today... Nobody knows for sure.
The Sun says; "Spy chiefs launched a probe yesterday into their security vetting of murdered spook Gareth Williams as it emerged bondage gear was found in his flat..."
"Detectives are believed to have discovered porn films and sado-masochistic equipment..."
"The master codebreaker working for MI6 was also linked to a male escort..."
Good old allegations of "kinky sex" - they make the tabloid world go round.
Although the broadsheet Daily Telegraph is usually more prurient than any of them; "Daily Telegraph; "One line of inquiry is that he is the victim of a sex game that went wrong and questions remain over why he was not discovered sooner."
The Daily Star managed to shoehorn in allusions to two of the most infamous names in espionage.
"A real-life James Bond found murdered in his bath could have fallen prey to a modern day Mata Hari."
Although as he worked as a codebreaker, Williams was more like Alan Turing than James Bond.
And Mata Hari was probably innocent, but anyway, do go on...
"Police found a SIM card containing telephone numbers of escort agencies in the flat where 31-year-old spy Gareth Williams was discovered stuffed inside a giant sports bag."
"Porn was also recovered from the £500,000 top floor apartment."
"Some reports, unconfirmed by police, suggested women’s clothes in Mr Williams’ size were discovered in the apartment in Pimlico, central London, suggesting he might have been a cross-dresser."
Although not according to The Star's sister paper The Daily Express;
Daily Express: "They [police] believe the spy may have known his attacker and let him into the flat. However, reports that the spy was a transvestite with a secret double life have been dismissed."
Over at The Daily Mail they were a little more reluctant to jump to any conclusions; "It has been reported that Mr Williams, who lived alone and did not have a partner, was a gay cross dresser and may have been killed by a gay lover."
Though they happy to speculate like nobody's business; "Police sources believe another theory is the spy's killer may have planted a trail of clues to make it seem as though he was murdered by a gay lover.
"They said gay magazines and the phone numbers of gay escort men were found in the apartment near the agent's body.
"Police have also asked a pathologist to check whether Mr Williams's neck was broken, which would suggest a professional hit, the sources said."
But - and it's quite a big but; "Those who know him say there is nothing to suggest that he may have been homosexual."
And finally, we hear on The Daily Mail online this afternoon;
"The government may be running a 'dirty tricks' campaign to blacken the name of murdered British spy Gareth Williams, according to the agent's family.
"William Hughes, the codebreaker's uncle, said Mr Williams's parents Ellen and Ian were 'furious' that their son has been labelled as gay and a cross dresser in media reports.
"'It is completely false,' said Mr Hughes, 62, who yesterday visited the Williams's family home in Holyhead, North Wales.
"'The lad had been away from home for a long time — we did not know much about his private life, but it has never crossed any of our minds that he could be gay..."
'Maybe it's the Government or somebody trying to discredit him.'"
It's certainly something to think about, isn't it?
Let's leave things today with the latest round-up from the rumour mill from The Mail;
"The latest reports on Mr Williams include claims that bondage gear and equipment associated with sado-masochism had been discovered in the flat he used in Pimlico, London, while it has also been claimed he had links to a male escort.
"Police sources believe one theory is the spy's killer may have planted a trail of clues to make it seem as though he was murdered by a gay lover.
"They said gay magazines and the phone numbers of gay escort men were found in the apartment near the agent's body.
"But people who knew the cycling enthusiast said he never gave any indication of being homosexual and a former landlord, who rented a flat to him for ten years, never saw him bring anyone – male or female – back to his home.
"Sources close to the inquiry have dismissed some of the allegations, which raises questions over who was behind them - and why they were made."
How many of the "allegations" were the media behind?