Old news, but the Snowden revelations might have some bearing on the matter… I wrote this as a speculative piece in 2010. For background click here: For those who do not know, Gareth Williams was the GCHQ mathematician and cryptanalyst seconded to SIS who was found dead in a bag in a bath at his flat. The inquest has just concluded with the coroner saying that he was “probably unlawfully killed”. Naturally there has been a lot of speculation over who and why. However, looking at the case logically narrows the possibilities considerably. First, we can rule out wild notions of foreign hit men killing him in revenge for merely…