Spy's death 'may never be solved' The holdall death mystery of MI6 codebreaker Gareth Williams may never be solved, a coroner has said. Dr Fiona Wilcox said it remained a "legitimate line of inquiry" that the secret services were involved in Mr Williams's death. However, she said "there was no evidence to support that he died at the hands of spies" as the inquest drew to a close. The coroner ruled out Mr Williams's interest in bondage and drag queens having any bearing on his death, before adding: "I wonder if this was an attempt by some third party to manipulate the evidence." Dr Wilcox said several factors hampered inquiries, including breakdowns in communication by her own coroner's office in ordering a second post-mortem examination, a DNA mix-up by forensics and the late submission of evidence by MI6 to police. She found it "highly unlikely" that Mr Williams got inside his red North Face holdall alone, saying: "If Gareth had been carrying out some kind of peculiar experiment, he wouldn't care if he left any foot or fingerprints." Pathologists said he would have suffocated within three minutes if he was alive when he got inside the 32in by 19in red North Face bag. Poisoning and asphyxiation were the "foremost contenders" in solving the death riddle, they said. Police, however, recovered no evidence of a third party being present and have no suspects in their inquiry. Mr Williams, a 31-year-old fitness enthusiast originally from Anglesey, was found naked, curled up in the padlocked holdall in the bath of his flat in Pimlico, central London, on August 23, 2010.