Evidence · Marconi scientists' deaths, 1982–1990

An unexplained puncture wound and no known reason to be in Bristol

Dajibhai was found with his trousers lowered and a small puncture wound in the left buttock that the Bristol coroner's office called "a mystery then and remains a mystery now"; he had no known link to Bristol and friends said he was looking forward to a new job in the City.

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What it means

Key questionWhich of the deaths remain unexplained after their inquests, and what would settle each one?

No evidence yet

No evidence yetunchanged

Part of itHow did Vimal Dajibhai come to fall from the Clifton Suspension Bridge on 5 August 1986?

2 answers, none ahead yet

Openunchanged

Answer this evidence bears onKilled by someone else

Supports1 for, none against

Still possiblewas No evidence yet

What it implies

The wound and the missing motive are the only specifics behind the foul-play view, and neither is explained in public sources.For: How did Vimal Dajibhai come to fall from the Clifton Suspension Bridge on 5 August 1986?

Next steps 2

Ask the Avon coroner for Dajibhai's inquest record

Could decidePoor odds

On: How did Vimal Dajibhai come to fall from the Clifton Suspension Bridge on 5 August 1986?Set by this evidence

13score

Details

Request the 1986-87 inquest file (verdict, pathology, toxicology, the wound) from the Avon coroner or Bristol Archives; inquest records are usually closed for 75 years but the coroner can allow access. The pathology would separate suicide from an injection.

Read Vimal Dajibhai's inquest file

Could shiftFair odds~6 h

On: How did Vimal Dajibhai come to fall from the Clifton Suspension Bridge on 5 August 1986?

11score

Details

Request the Avon coroner's 1986–87 inquest papers on Vimal Dajibhai, or the Bristol Evening Post's inquest reports, for the evidence behind the open verdict and the reported puncture wound.

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

Sources 3

Coincidence or conspiracy?

Eliason 1988

SRC

Scientists' Deaths Mystify British

Witt 1988

SRC

Their Firm Linked to 'Star Wars': British Scientists' Deaths: Suicides or Conspiracy?

Marshall 1987

SRC

Cite it

Mysteries Department. (2026). An unexplained puncture wound and no known reason to be in Bristol [Evidence EVD0DGGD4Z6B82K]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVD0DGGD4Z6B82K

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  author    = {{Mysteries Department}},
  year      = {2026},
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