Stephen Milligan's Death Could Be Russian 'Foul Play' Says BBC's John Simpson

Disputes findings that MP died in solo sex game at his Chiswick flat

A Tory MP who died in an apparent 'sex game gone wrong' in Chiswick, may actually have been killed by the KGB in a Russian state assassination, BBC journalist John Simpson has claimed.

Stephen Milligan was found dead by his secretary, in his flat at Black Lion Lane, Chiswick in February 1994, wearing a pair of stockings and suspenders, with an electric cord around his neck and a black bag over his head.

John Simpson, who was a friend of Milligan, who had worked as a journalist in Moscow before becoming an MP, says that he believes that he could have been the victim of a Russian state assassination.

Stephen Milligan

Milligan's death became part of a sleaze scandal that ultimately toppled the Tory government led by John Major.

Black Lion Lane

John Simpson, who describes Stephen Milligan as a "lovely, intelligent and sensitive man", says that Russia had a motive for killing Milligan for his reports on the new Yeltsin government. He also cited the deaths of two other opponents of the regime, who died in similar circumstances.

He said he began to have suspicions about Russian involvement in Milligan's death after speaking to another close friend of the late MP for Eastleigh, who was of the same opinion.

Seventy four-year-old Simpson was speaking at the Henley Literary Festival, where he is promoting his new book, Moscow, Midnight.

October 7, 2018