GCHQ, the UK government’s intelligence and cyber agency, recruited Welsh-born Gareth Williams in 2000 when he was still at university completing a PHD. He had come to their attention due to his extraordinary intellect, problem solving abilities and computer wizardry. By the time Gareth was 31 he had spent a decade protecting the national security of the UK and had been involved in several projects and missions of global importance. In August 2010 whilst he was on secondment with MI6, the secret intelligence service, Gareth’s dead body was found curled up inside a holdall in the bath tub of his central London flat. The bag had been padlocked shut and the keys were found inside the bag under Gareth’s body. Gareth’s fingerprints were not found on the padlock or the bath tub and Gareth was not wearing gloves. 

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