UK top cop who led CIA probe found dead
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By ROB HARRIS, Associated Press Writer /Tue Mar 11, 2:45 PM ET/
MANCHESTER, England - A city police chief who led an investigation into
charges that Britain cooperated with secret CIA flights to transport
terrorism suspects without formal proceedings has been found dead, his
deputy said Tuesday.
Manchester Chief Constable Michael Todd, 50, was found dead in
Snowdonia, about 240 miles northwest of London, Deputy Chief Constable
Dave Whatton said. He had been missing since going out for a walk Monday
during his day off.
Whatton said the body, which was found Tuesday afternoon, had not yet
been formally identified but he believed it was Todd.
He said a coroner's inquest would investigate the cause of death and did
not give any further details.
Todd was elected vice president of the Association of Chief Police
Officers of England and Wales in 2006, according to a biography on his
Web site.
The association gave him the task of looking into accusations that
Britain allowed the CIA to use the country's airports to fly terrorism
suspects to other countries without any extradition hearings, a
clandestine procedure known as "extraordinary rendition."
Todd's investigation concluded last June that there was no evidence to
back the claim. Last month, however, Britain admitted one of its remote
outposts in the Indian Ocean had twice been used by the United States as
a refueling stop for the secret transfer of two terrorism suspects.
He and his wife had a daughter and twin sons.
