# The inquest found suicide after a CID investigation

> The Bristol inquest recorded suicide for Ashad Sharif after an investigation by Avon and Somerset divisional CID under a senior headquarters officer.

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# The inquest found suicide after a CID investigation

The Bristol inquest recorded suicide for Ashad Sharif after an investigation by Avon and Somerset divisional CID under a senior headquarters officer.

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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[Did Ashad Sharif kill himself near Bristol on 28 October 1986, as the inquest found?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/marconi-scientists/questions/QST0DGGA0KC8V4Y/did-ashad-sharif-kill-himself-near-bristol-on-28-october)

2 answers, none ahead yet

**Open** unchanged

Answer this evidence bears on[Suicide, as the inquest found](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/marconi-scientists/answers/ANS0DGGBCP6HY9B/suicide-as-the-inquest-found)

Supports1 for, none against

**Still possible** was No evidence yet

What it implies
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The formal finding is suicide; doubts rest on the method and on a relative's account.For: Did Ashad Sharif kill himself near Bristol on 28 October 1986, as the inquest found?

## Sources 2

[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

[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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