so, the inquest of the MI6 man starts today

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www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-17812112
Will the truth ever be known. I feel really sorry for his family, his reputation has been really dragged through the mud.

The fact of the keys in the bag isn't that odd, is it? You can close a padlock without keys, so I would just assume the keys were put there before his body was put in the bag, or am I missing something?

Good point Inspector forthis. I don't understand though, how he could have closed the padlock from inside the bag .
I saw a report this morning in the paper that shall not be named, it said his parents had to leave the court. They are who I feel sorry for.

There is a picture of the padlock on the zip in the papers. I could have understood (at a stretch) how no one else was involved if the padlock was on the end of each of the zips which would mean you could fit your fingers through a hole inthe zip. But the padlock was put on in such a way that there is no gap. How could he have fitted it from inside then?!

I feel so so sorry for his family. All this stuff about the ladies clothes. It just feels like someone is trying to drag his name through the mud.

I don't think mud-dragging can be avoided when there are so many odd and unexplained elements to the story. £20,000-worth of clothes (any gender) is a serious shopping habit. You can be killed for owing money.

I'd be surprised if he owed money.

We've no idea how long it took him to amass the clothes etc, nor if they've taken the value from what he actually paid, or from what their RRP was. As a single man, with low outgoings (assuming secondment to London included a rent allowance) then he'd probably have a high disposable income anyhow.

Yesterday's evidence (from the previous landlady) just added to the weirdness.

And I agree this must be really hard on the parents.