British police believe a spy whose body was found stuffed into a bag at his London flat may have been killed by a jealous lover.
The body of 31-year-old Gareth Williams lay undiscovered for up to two weeks in the bathroom of his top floor flat.
Police also found women's clothes that fitted Williams at the flat, leading some British media to label him a 'cross-dressing spy'.
The Daily Telegraph says Williams had been working for MI6 on a one-year posting but was due to return to his regular job at the Government Communications Headquarter listening station in Cheltenham.
The paper says detectives believe Williams might have had a violent row with a lover over his decision to return to Gloucestershire.
However, police have not ruled out the possibility that the murder could be linked to his secret intelligence work.
There was no sign of forced entry at the flat in Pimlico, central London, suggesting the killer was someone Mr Williams knew. Nothing was stolen.
Detectives are studying whether he was strangled, asphyxiated or drugged.
The Sun says detectives are also investigating whether he was killed by a foreign spy, saying spook agencies in some countries target British operatives by using good-looking agents to seduce them into giving up secrets.
It says Williams was known to meet men in the capital's gay mecca of Vauxhall Cross and Soho in the West End.
