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Murdered British spy found stuffed into sports bag

A British spy who was found dead in the bath of a flat in London was stabbed several times before his body was stuffed into a sports bag where it lay decomposing for up to two weeks.

…Mr Williams rented a flat in Cheltenham from retired office worker Jenny
Elliott, 71, for ten years until just over a year ago when he moved to
London.

He phoned Mrs Elliott in April to ask for his old room back after getting a
transfer back to the town.

“Gareth was a very likeable person who didn’t really have any friends as
such,” Mrs Elliott said.

“He was an extremely intelligent person but would not talk about his job as it
was a secret, on account of working for GCHQ. All he told me was it was
something to do with codes,” she added.

Neighbours in Pimlico also spoke of their shock….

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Saudi Arabia urged not to paralyze man as retribution punish

Amnesty International on Friday urged Saudi Arabian authorities not to paralyze a man as punishment for his having paralyzed someone else, allegedly during a fight.

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(CNN) — Amnesty International on Friday urged Saudi Arabian authorities not to paralyze a man as punishment for his having paralyzed someone else, allegedly during a fight. The Saudi newspaper Okaz reported that the judge in the case had sent letters to several hospitals in Saudi Arabia asking if they could sever a man’s spinal cord, as the man he allegedly stabbed had requested and, under sharia law, was his right to seek. But such a punishment would amount “to nothing less than torture,” said Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui, acting director of the organization’s Middle East and North Africa Programme. “While those guilty of a crime should be held accountable, intentionally paralyzing a man in this way would constitute torture, and be a breach of its international human rights obligations.” The paralyzed man, 22-year-old Abdul-Aziz al-Mitairy, told Okaz that the accused stabbed him in the back with a large knife during a fight more than two years ago. “The accused confessed to the crime in front of…

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