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could the clues lie in gareth williams' private life? his visit a few bondage websites in which people were tied up. why he lived in this house -- his landlady had found him tied to his bed. he told her he just wanted to see if he could get free. for gareth williams' family, the inquest means hearing much difficult information. for all the mystery, for all the conspiracies, this story is one of a talented young man who met a tragic death. >> still to come on gmt -- a happy ending for a penguin stolen from an australian zoo. hunters have been protesting in the danish capital of copenhagen over a decision by a major department store to stop selling products. they are afraid the ban will be copied by other stores and will endanger their livelihood. from copenhagen, this report. >> outside the upscale the parma's store -department store. they came to protest against the decision to ban the sale of all seal products. fears that other businesses will follow suit. shops around the world are under pressure from animal campaigners. them -- theytt
could the clues lie in gareth williams' private life? his visit a few bondage websites in which people were tied up. why he lived in this house -- his landlady had found him tied to his bed. he told her he just wanted to see if he could get free. for gareth williams' family, the inquest means hearing much difficult information. for all the mystery, for all the conspiracies, this story is one of a talented young man who met a tragic death. >> still to come on gmt -- a happy ending for a...
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. >> nearly two years on from the death gareth williams of -- from the death of gareth williams, the central mysteries of how and why the intelligence officer died remain. this shows how gareth williams' body was found in the top floor bathroom of his flat, locked in a bad. but how did he get there? the corridor -- the coroner reached a narrative verdict. she said that she was persuaded he was killed unlawfully. and in the inquiry will continue. >> the investigation will now refocus on actively pursuing all the evidence and lines of inquiry. >> the most persuasive evidence the court heard was whether gareth williams could have climbed inside the bag himself. especially when there were no hand prints or footprints around the bath, that would be expected if he had done so. >> i have tried hundreds of times to lock myself inside this bag and i could not. even if houdini would struggle with this. someone else must of been involved. >> the corner of grade. on the balance of -- the coroner agreed. on the balance of probabilities, someone else locked the back. large amounts of women's cloth
. >> nearly two years on from the death gareth williams of -- from the death of gareth williams, the central mysteries of how and why the intelligence officer died remain. this shows how gareth williams' body was found in the top floor bathroom of his flat, locked in a bad. but how did he get there? the corridor -- the coroner reached a narrative verdict. she said that she was persuaded he was killed unlawfully. and in the inquiry will continue. >> the investigation will now refocus...
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two years on from the death of gareth williams, seen here in his last movements, the central mystery of how and why the intelligence officer died remain. today, the police woman leading the inquiry made it clear the investigation goes on. >> the inquest has left seven new lines of inquiry and the investigation will now focus and actively pursue all of the evidence heard and all of the new lines of inquiry. >> this police reconstruction with residue of extensive forensic testing shows how gareth williams' body was found. could he have got inside and locked it himself? experts gave evidence in court and video was shown of them trying. one of them told us what he thought. >> i've tried hundreds of times to lock myself inside this bag and i could not. even hinting he would have struggled with this one. >> the corner gave her conclusion. i am satisfied on the balance of the probability that he was killed unlawfully, she said. was his death linked to his work or his private life? the head of mi6 attended the funeral. he apologized for the delay in reporting his missing from his team. it is
two years on from the death of gareth williams, seen here in his last movements, the central mystery of how and why the intelligence officer died remain. today, the police woman leading the inquiry made it clear the investigation goes on. >> the inquest has left seven new lines of inquiry and the investigation will now focus and actively pursue all of the evidence heard and all of the new lines of inquiry. >> this police reconstruction with residue of extensive forensic testing...
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but as i brought out in my gareth williams lecture, we all knew it was going to do that. that was discussed endlessly in parliament. but to be truthful, the politicians thought they'd like will the end of law of privacy, have the means to the strand and the law lords, because it's tricky if you're a politician with the law of privacy and we thought their lordships on the bench would do a better job. so it's really a question of passing the parcel to them. everybody knew what was happening. >> so the pcc wasn't listed as a public authority for the purposes of section 6, but as a matter of ordinary principles of jurisprudence, it would have been so deemed and there was an opinion to that effect. >> there was a great debate about whether in drafting the bill that you had a list of public authorities or whether, as happened with the freedom of information act, for example, they are scheduled. as a matter of certainty whether an authority is public or not. whereas in the human rights act, it's structured in a different way. i haven't got section 6 in front of me directly, but
but as i brought out in my gareth williams lecture, we all knew it was going to do that. that was discussed endlessly in parliament. but to be truthful, the politicians thought they'd like will the end of law of privacy, have the means to the strand and the law lords, because it's tricky if you're a politician with the law of privacy and we thought their lordships on the bench would do a better job. so it's really a question of passing the parcel to them. everybody knew what was happening....
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. >> if a more effective system of regulation which i set out in the gareth williams' lecture has to have a platform of statute would help, but it would more effectively put the mirror up to the press where they have breached certain standards, but there is a bigger issue here about the culture of the newspapers as compared to what happens in newsrooms, where i certainly think that the press need to be most examining of what they are doing. much more examining. and if i talked early in this evidence about how they report politics and parliament, i am consistently amazed that newspapers complaining about low turnout, and at elections. i think that 20 years ago, it was much higher, and not understanding they have contributed to a significant degree to a culture in which politics is seen as boring, seen as completely self-serving and it is not for smart people to get involved in, and even to the point of voting. so of course, there is going to be a -- that has an effect, and they don't really think about that. they are highly quixotic and the same newspaper can be praising a politician
. >> if a more effective system of regulation which i set out in the gareth williams' lecture has to have a platform of statute would help, but it would more effectively put the mirror up to the press where they have breached certain standards, but there is a bigger issue here about the culture of the newspapers as compared to what happens in newsrooms, where i certainly think that the press need to be most examining of what they are doing. much more examining. and if i talked early in...
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. >> reporter: police began their search for gareth williams on this quiet london street where he lived, but as they made their way up into his third-story apartment what had been a simple missing persons inquiry quickly became a bizarre mystery. in the bathroom a red duffel bag sat in the tub, padlocked. inside it, william's tightly folded naked body. detectives found no signs of a struggle in the apartment and nothing to show whether this was a homicide or a suicide. police even asked a yoga expert to prove williams could have locked himself in as a kind of stunt. unlikely, he said. gareth williams, 31 years old, was an athlete and, as police discovered when they searched his computer, he had a secret interest in bondage. these security camera images of him shopping alone are the last known pictures of williams. what happened after he got home and who, if anyone, was there with him, remains an open question which, unlike in the best fictional spy stories, may never be resolved. elizabeth palmer, cbs news, london. >> pelley: convicts cleared of crimes they didn't commit are getting hel
. >> reporter: police began their search for gareth williams on this quiet london street where he lived, but as they made their way up into his third-story apartment what had been a simple missing persons inquiry quickly became a bizarre mystery. in the bathroom a red duffel bag sat in the tub, padlocked. inside it, william's tightly folded naked body. detectives found no signs of a struggle in the apartment and nothing to show whether this was a homicide or a suicide. police even asked a...
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. >> reporter: how did gareth williams british spy and code breaker go from this video in august 2010ed up into a padlocked duffel bag and placed in his own bathtub. the key, inside the bag under the body. after more than a year of police work and three postmortem, a british coroner on wednesday was finally able to deliver a verdict, but very few answers. cause of death, asphyxiation or poisoning likely overcome by carbon dioxide within minutes of being locked in, but did he lock himself into the bag or was someone else, an expert, attempted to lock himself into the same type of bag and it showed that williams, small, slip and athletic could have folded himself into the bag, but not without leaving hand and footprints everywhere. none were found at the scene. and a bag was uniquely locked, virtually impossible to do from the inside, most likely said the coroner, quote, a third party placed the body in the bag and locked it. his immaculate apartment, clothes neatly folded on the bed showed no sign of forced entry and no evidence that anyone other than williams had been in the apartment
. >> reporter: how did gareth williams british spy and code breaker go from this video in august 2010ed up into a padlocked duffel bag and placed in his own bathtub. the key, inside the bag under the body. after more than a year of police work and three postmortem, a british coroner on wednesday was finally able to deliver a verdict, but very few answers. cause of death, asphyxiation or poisoning likely overcome by carbon dioxide within minutes of being locked in, but did he lock himself...
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gareth williams was found dead in his apartment locked into a sports bag eight days after he was lastt to know what exactly happened, but there are some very strange theories. dan rivers is covering the story in london and i asked him what progress they're making. >> erin, it is a mystery worthy of a spy film. how on earth did gareth williams wind up dead inside that bag inside his apartment when there was no sign of a break-in, no visible injuries on his body whatsoever. no real sign of how he died. experts have suggests perhaps he was either poisoned or suffocated. they've tried to work out how me managed to get inside the bag when the key for the lock of that bag was inside. some suggested it was related to his personal life. $32,000 of women's clothes were found in his apartment, but his family insisted he didn't have a secret sex life, that he wasn't gay. at the moment, it remains an enigma. erin? >> thanks very much to dan. now to the central african republic, where 100 special u.s. forces are helping their african partners to hunt down joseph kony and other leaders of his milit
gareth williams was found dead in his apartment locked into a sports bag eight days after he was lastt to know what exactly happened, but there are some very strange theories. dan rivers is covering the story in london and i asked him what progress they're making. >> erin, it is a mystery worthy of a spy film. how on earth did gareth williams wind up dead inside that bag inside his apartment when there was no sign of a break-in, no visible injuries on his body whatsoever. no real sign of...
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. >> the expression to some of the views in the gareth williams' memorial lecture, and one sense of course was extremely curiously timed july 12th in the eye of the storm under tab two. >> yes, i have got that. >> we are not going to read it out, mr. straw, because we can preread it, but can we pick up a number of key themes and to the extent which at all you wish to modify those in light of the events that have occurred since july of last year or indeed what happened in the inquiry, and not just external events, but to such an extent that you picked things up from the inquiry. this is the concept and the reality of self-regulation that you have begun to touch on page 3 of the internal numbering and you describe it as a weak substitute at the margin for legal obstruction. i think that you probably would like to explain in the wording the context of the historical -- >> well, one point i make in the preceding paragraph, and the subsequent one is that some people in the press have presented the sufferings first, and two legs good and two legs bad dichotomy and implied that at the moment, the
. >> the expression to some of the views in the gareth williams' memorial lecture, and one sense of course was extremely curiously timed july 12th in the eye of the storm under tab two. >> yes, i have got that. >> we are not going to read it out, mr. straw, because we can preread it, but can we pick up a number of key themes and to the extent which at all you wish to modify those in light of the events that have occurred since july of last year or indeed what happened in the...
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and i also think and i said in my gareth williams lecture that there is a need now for parliament to amend the law so there is a tort of breach of privacy which applies -- doesn't just apply to public authorities, it applies to everybody. so i think it is time for parliament to accept the responsibility we passed to the judiciary. >> the media genesis to section 12, would you kindly look, mr. straw, under tab 9 to the debate. >> i wonder if i could -- to reduce the bundle, i left some of these -- if i could ask somebody to pass me the other tabs, would that be all right? >> of course, of course. >> my researcher there can pass them to me. i made a very poor judgment that i'd never be asked about them. >> this is the second reading of the bill in the house of commons on the 2nd of july, 1998. it's an internet printout and runs 21 pages. >> anyway, if you don't mind, if you go on, i'll find knit due course. >> no, no, no, no. i'd rather you -- >> i think i've still not got number 9. >> well, let me give you mine. >> i'm very sorry about this. >> no, no, don't worry. >> i've got three.
and i also think and i said in my gareth williams lecture that there is a need now for parliament to amend the law so there is a tort of breach of privacy which applies -- doesn't just apply to public authorities, it applies to everybody. so i think it is time for parliament to accept the responsibility we passed to the judiciary. >> the media genesis to section 12, would you kindly look, mr. straw, under tab 9 to the debate. >> i wonder if i could -- to reduce the bundle, i left...
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the body of a 31-year-old man named gareth williams was found in the bathtub at a london apartment inside a padlocked duffel bag. this is where it gets strange. investigators found no evidence of a struggle and no signs pointing to murder. they're trying to figure out how he got in there. >>> japanese officials are trying to figure out whether a motorcycle that washed up in canada was swept out to sea in last year's tsunami and traveled more than 3100 miles across the pacific. the harley davidson has japanese tags and was inside what might have been a moving van container. >>> president obama refused to making a statement on the escape of chinese dissident chen guangcheng. china detained several other activists believed to have helped the blind lawyer. >>> he ran into the face of danger. now a special honor awaits the man who withstood a dog attack to save some of his neighbors. >>> bryce harper hopes to stay hot in front of the home fans. >> howard has the forecast when we come right back. >>> good morning. welcome back to nine fine now. it's 5:13 this tuesday morning. we talked about he
the body of a 31-year-old man named gareth williams was found in the bathtub at a london apartment inside a padlocked duffel bag. this is where it gets strange. investigators found no evidence of a struggle and no signs pointing to murder. they're trying to figure out how he got in there. >>> japanese officials are trying to figure out whether a motorcycle that washed up in canada was swept out to sea in last year's tsunami and traveled more than 3100 miles across the pacific. the...
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scathing criticism for the british secret service, saying they failed to report that he -- that gareth williams a week, despite the fact that he missed several meetings. also that the mi-6 failed to hand over critical evidence, including nine memory sticks that they found at his workplace. now, what we do know is that both the coroner and the lead detective on the case believe that another person was with him when he died. likely, they say, the person who locked the bag and placed it in the bathtub. police are now searching for that person. erin. >> it is a bizarre story. >>> 80 rapes in three years. a staggering number. for the college town of missoula, montana. so staggering that the u.s. department of justice has launched an investigation. at the heart of the matter is not whether the assaults occurred but how the local police and the university of montana handled the reports of sexual violence. was there a cover-up? the county attorney said he'll cooperate but he said the federal government is overreaching the authority. >> we find it extremely ironic that the united states department of ju
scathing criticism for the british secret service, saying they failed to report that he -- that gareth williams a week, despite the fact that he missed several meetings. also that the mi-6 failed to hand over critical evidence, including nine memory sticks that they found at his workplace. now, what we do know is that both the coroner and the lead detective on the case believe that another person was with him when he died. likely, they say, the person who locked the bag and placed it in the...
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this case has transfixed the country and stumped investigators. 31-year-old gareth williams worked for mi-6, the spy agency of james bond fame. unlike the movies, the miystery of williams' death may never be solved. for nearly two years, investigators have been trying to determine what happened to the brilliant code-breaking spy whose body was found stuffed in a duffel bag, zipped, padlocked and placed inside his bathtub. the heat turned high in the middle of summer. his iphone wiped clean. hanging from a chair, a can did-colored wig. after a 21-month investigation, a british coroner announced this was probably a criminal act, but there are no clear signs of who was behind it. >> i urge anyone who knows gareth, who had contact with him, to search their conscience and come forward. >> reporter: failed attempts by experts who locked themselves up in a similar bag seem to prove that williams couldn't have acted alone. >> the door was closed to mask decomposition smell, and the heating was turned on full. so there was no visible marks or evidence that he could have done this. >> reporter:
this case has transfixed the country and stumped investigators. 31-year-old gareth williams worked for mi-6, the spy agency of james bond fame. unlike the movies, the miystery of williams' death may never be solved. for nearly two years, investigators have been trying to determine what happened to the brilliant code-breaking spy whose body was found stuffed in a duffel bag, zipped, padlocked and placed inside his bathtub. the heat turned high in the middle of summer. his iphone wiped clean....