[tlrobinson]

'His decomposing naked remains were found in a red The North Face bag, padlocked from the outside, in the bath of the main bedroom's en-suite bathroom.'

...

'A subsequent Metropolitan Police re-investigation concluded that Williams's death was "probably an accident."'

... what?

[rdancer]

If you want to send a message, you don't make it a plausible accident. And if you really want to send a message loud and clear, you let it be understood that this was no rogue element; the whole government backs this up: another branch of the executive, the judiciary (no review), and the legislative (no investigative committee).

[elthran]

Yeah - completely farcical ruling.

However, surely if he was killed to order, the people responsible would make it far less obvious, and if it was attempted to be covered up - surely it wouldn't be as poorly done as this?

[mavdi]

Yes, but exactly the same logic could be applied to Litvinenko. Death by plutonium is so obvious that one might think it was meant to be that way.

[elthran]

I can see the use of killing someone with a painful, elongated death by polonium poisoning, it's obvious, and makes a statement. I don't feel the same can be said for making the body of someone appear in a locked bag though - people's reactions are closer to "WTF?" rather than shock.