# Police and the Home Office found nothing linking the cases

> Police investigated the contested deaths before and after their inquests, and the Home Office told Parliament there was no evidence linking Dajibhai…

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# Police and the Home Office found nothing linking the cases

Police investigated the contested deaths before and after their inquests, and the Home Office told Parliament there was no evidence linking Dajibhai, Sharif and Singh-Gida beyond Dajibhai and Singh-Gida having probably known each other at Loughborough in 1979.

Suggestive0

## What it means

Key question[Did any of the deaths share a common cause, such as killings by an intelligence service?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/marconi-scientists/questions/QST0DGG9JVJS6R7/did-any-of-the-deaths-share-a-common-cause-such-as-killings)

3 answers, none ahead yet

**Open** unchanged

Answer this evidence bears on[Unconnected: each death had its own cause](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/marconi-scientists/answers/ANS0DGGAEZC71NW/unconnected-each-death-had-its-own-cause)

Supports2 for, none against

**Still possible** unchanged

What it implies
1.

The investigations of the time found no link, but their reports are unpublished and cannot be checked.For the key question: Did any of the deaths share a common cause, such as killings by an intelligence service?

## Next steps 2

1

Read FCO 65/3861 and FCO 7/8389 at Kew

Adds evidenceFair odds~6 h

[On: Did any of the deaths share a common cause, such as killings by an intelligence service?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/marconi-scientists/questions/QST0DGG9JVJS6R7/did-any-of-the-deaths-share-a-common-cause-such-as-killings)

**11** score

Details

The open Foreign Office files on Wash (1986) and Moyle (1991) are the only official files on any of these deaths known to be readable. They would show what the government knew and said privately.

2

Request the Avon and Somerset police reports on Dajibhai and Sharif

Adds evidencePoor odds

[On: Did any of the deaths share a common cause, such as killings by an intelligence service?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/marconi-scientists/questions/QST0DGG9JVJS6R7/did-any-of-the-deaths-share-a-common-cause-such-as-killings)Set by this evidence

**4** score

Details

Freedom of Information request to Avon and Somerset Police and to the Avon coroner for the 1986-87 reports and inquest files. If released, they would show what evidence of third parties, if any, was found.

Ranked by how likely each is to move the key question, for the time it takes

## Sources 4

[Deaths (Bristol): written answer, House of Commons, 23 March 1987 (HC Deb vol 113 c11W)](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DGG587N39BE/deaths-bristol-written-answer-house-of-commons-23-march-1987)

Commons 1987

SRC

[Inquests (Police Investigations): written answer, House of Commons, 19 April 1988 (HC Deb vol 131 c407W)](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DGG5N0TNBHY/inquests-police-investigations-written-answer-house-of)

Commons 1988

SRC

[Mr. V. Dajibhai and Mr. A. Sharif: written answer, House of Commons, 25 March 1987 (HC Deb vol 113 c159W)](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DGG58GJFCMK/mr-v-dajibhai-and-mr-a-sharif-written-answer-house-of)

Commons 1987

SRC

[Scientists (Deaths): written answer, House of Commons, 9 April 1987 (HC Deb vol 114 c362W)](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DGG5JG3R7ZQ/scientists-deaths-written-answer-house-of-commons-9-april)

Commons 1987

SRC

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