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Podcast: They Walk Among Us - UK True Crime
Episode: The Spy In A Bag / The Death Of Gareth Williams
Description: Monday, August 23, 2010. Officers from the central London police force visited the home of Gareth Williams at his top-floor flat on Alderney Street in Pimlico, London. Gareth had been working as a communications officer at the Government Communications Headquarters in Cheltenham. The cypher and codes expert was seconded to the secret intelligence service headquarters on the bank of the Thames, around half a mile from his home. When Gareth didn’t turn up for work, his colleagues made attempts to track him down; however, when that failed, the authorities were notified. Police arrived at Gareth’s home, and after receiving no r...