Police find body in bag at MI6 man's London flat

[Jan Klimkowski]

This "mystery mediterranean couple" is a blatant red herring.

Here's the official line:

Scotland Yard are trying to trace the unidentified man and woman, aged between 20-30, who visited the Pimlico house late at night, one or two months before Mr Williams died. It is believed they may have been visiting the spy at his top flat home but have not been seen since.

Here's some information about 36 Alderney Street from earlier in the thread.

further sign of Williams’s importance was that he had been assigned to live at 36 Alderney Street – a high-security apartment in Pimlico that MI6 would have previously used to debrief one of its agents or a defector. Like all safe houses, it was functionally furnished – but with a direct phone line to MI6 headquarters less than a mile away. Williams would have been cautioned about who he was allowed to entertain at home.

Are we seriously meant to believe that this "mystery mediterranean couple", visiting a highly secure MI6 safe house, have not been subject to a major MI6/NSA investigation, certainly from the moment that Williams was found dead?

British and/or American intelligence almost certainly know precisely who this couple are. If the couple are foreign agents, then the normal tradecraft solutions will already be happening, and Pc Plod will be told to butt out as national security applies.

If not, Det Chf Insp Jacqueline Sebire should ask the spooks to share their identity.

They'll likely make ideal patsy material...