# Suicide suspected; police inquiry closed with no link found

> Suicide was suspected at the inquest, which left the verdict open, and Avon and Somerset CID closed its inquiry having found no evidence linking his…

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# Suicide suspected; police inquiry closed with no link found

Suicide was suspected at the inquest, which left the verdict open, and Avon and Somerset CID closed its inquiry having found no evidence linking his death to Sharif's or to Singh-Gida's disappearance.

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## 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[Suicide, as police and coroner suspected](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/marconi-scientists/answers/ANS0DGGB4C31PXS/suicide-as-police-and-coroner-suspected)

Supports1 for, none against

**Still possible** was No evidence yet

What it implies
1.

The investigators of the time leaned to suicide, though they could not prove intent.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)

**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

[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

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