Scotland Yard’s Commissioner Bernard Hogan-Howe said the MI6 officers could have their DNA checked if they are recognized as suspects in the death of the agency’s former code-breaker Gareth Williams whose body was found in a bag in his London flat in 2010.
Hogan-Howe has also demanded that MI6 provides the police “unrestricted access” to its staff for DNA screening in connection with the case, which coroners say was a murder.
His call comes as inquirers in Williams’s case have now pinned their hopes to DNA samples, which they could compare to samples from a towel recovered from his kitchen after 21 months of investigations.
Last week coroner Fiona Wilcox said Williams has been probably murdered adding the secret services’ involvement in his killing “remained a legitimate line of inquiry.”
Hogan-Howe has made it clear that the law gives the inquirers enough power to ensure MI6 cooperates with the investigations.
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