# 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…

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# 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.

Speculative0

## What it means

Key question[Which of the deaths remain unexplained after their inquests, and what would settle each one?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/marconi-scientists/questions/QST0DGG9P56CQK6/which-of-the-deaths-remain-unexplained-after-their-inquests)

No evidence yet

**No evidence yet** unchanged

Part of it[How did Vimal Dajibhai come to fall from the Clifton Suspension Bridge on 5 August 1986?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/marconi-scientists/questions/QST0DGG9Y36Z2SZ/how-did-vimal-dajibhai-come-to-fall-from-the-clifton)

2 answers, none ahead yet

**Open** unchanged

Answer this evidence bears on[Killed by someone else](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/marconi-scientists/answers/ANS0DGGB4HV6266/killed-by-someone-else)

Supports1 for, none against

**Still possible** was No evidence yet

What it implies
1.

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

1

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?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/marconi-scientists/questions/QST0DGG9Y36Z2SZ/how-did-vimal-dajibhai-come-to-fall-from-the-clifton)Set by this evidence

**13** score

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.

2

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?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/marconi-scientists/questions/QST0DGG9Y36Z2SZ/how-did-vimal-dajibhai-come-to-fall-from-the-clifton)

**11** score

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?](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DGG68J10XD6/coincidence-or-conspiracy)

Eliason 1988

SRC

[Scientists' Deaths Mystify British](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DGG6JXTCFY6/scientists-deaths-mystify-british)

Witt 1988

SRC

[Their Firm Linked to 'Star Wars': British Scientists' Deaths: Suicides or Conspiracy?](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DGG6K49BE92/their-firm-linked-to-star-wars-british-scientists-deaths)

Marshall 1987

SRC

## Cite it

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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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