Oh the whitewash

[Bunk]

I would suggest that if the padlock was on the outside, that constitutes sufficient evidence to go with the hypothesis that there was someone else involved, unless it can be demonstrated that the chappy in the bag was an exceptionally accomplished circus act.

Didn't they get someone who was rather good at that sort of thing to try it, and conclude that it was extremely difficult, near impossible?

[Mich the Tester]

Didn't they get someone who was rather good at that sort of thing to try it, and conclude that it was extremely difficult, near impossible?

Yes, and so the idea that there was nobody else involved is not a very reasonable assumption.

[OwlHoot]

The strange circumstances he was found in suggest it was just some role play thingie that went horribly wrong, perhaps as simple as dropping and being unable to retrieve the padlock key while stuck inside the bag. Seems a slightly infantile carry on if so, but then when it comes to sex I guess there's no accounting for tastes.

Surely if some foreign intelligence agency wanted to bump him off or kidnap him, wouldn't it have been much easier and more reliable, with less risk of being recorded on pesky CCTV, to off him or grab him (as required) in a suitable street?

edit: and if third party/parties had been present as part of the role playing (perhaps to secure him and then go and watch TV for half an hour) then it's all too understandable they would have simply hoofed it once they realised he had suffocated.

[vetran]

Didn't they get someone who was rather good at that sort of thing to try it, and conclude that it was extremely difficult, near impossible?

two people for the coroner.

however a third person later managed it.

[russell]

Didn't they get someone who was rather good at that sort of thing to try it, and conclude that it was extremely difficult, near impossible?

Not to mention WHY! even if someone could why would one?

[vetran]

maybe he didn't like Citrus fruits?

MP 'was worried over tarnished television image': Coroner records misadventure verdict on Milligan - UK - News - The Independent

[OwlHoot]

Not to mention WHY! even if someone could why would one?

Strange are the ways of men

Have you seen that film Personal Services (1987), in which one of the punters likes being locked in a wardrobe?

[CheeseSlice]

two people for the coroner.

however a third person later managed it.

And this one. Apparently there is a special way of locking from the outside before pulling the zips together.

Woman locks herself in holdall identical to one in which MI6 officer was found - video | UK news | theguardian.com

[Mich the Tester]

And this one. Apparently there is a special way of locking from the outside before pulling the zips together.

Woman locks herself in holdall identical to one in which MI6 officer was found - video | UK news | theguardian.com

And then a bloke came and adjusted the padlock. Besides, if you can close it from the inside, you can open it from the inside, and is the holdall really strong enough to make it impossible to break the seams from the inside, using the full force of one's legs?

I still find it a bit far fetched that there was nobody else involved.

[vetran]

On LBC now.

I can smell the lime.