Such was the terrible and bizarre nature of Sharif’s death that it even made the news thousands of miles away in the United States.
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The coroner in the Sharif case, Donald Hawkins, commented wryly on the fact that Marconi was experiencing an extraordinary number of odd deaths: “As James Bond would say—this is beyond coincidence.” As the months progressed, so did the deaths. The case of Dr. John Brittan was particularly disturbing since he had had two run-ins with death, the second of which he did not survive. On Christmas 1986, Brittan ended up in a ditch after his car violently, and inexplicably, lurched across the road. He was lucky to survive.
The Grim Reaper was not happy that Brittan had escaped his icy clutches, however. Less than two weeks into January 1987 (and immediately after Brittan returned to the United Kingdom from the United States, where he had been on official, secret business), Brittan’s body was found in his garage. He was an unfortunate victim of the effects of deadly carbon monoxide.
Also dead in January 1987 was Richard Pugh, a computer expert who had done work for Marconi and whose death the Ministry of Defense dismissed with the following words: “We have heard about him but he had nothing to do with us.”
Then was the extremely weird saga of Avtar Singh-Gida. An employee of the British Ministry of Defense who worked on a number of Marconi programs, he vanished from his home in Loughborough, England, right around the same time that Dr. John Brittan died. His family feared the worst. Fortunately, Singh- Gida did not turn up dead. Quite the opposite, in fact: he was found in Paris fifteen weeks later. He had no memory of where he had been or what he had done in that period.
The deaths of Brittan, Dajibhai, and Sharif—coupled with the odd case of Singh-Gida—prompted a member of Parliament, John Cartwright, to state authoritatively that the deaths “stretch the possibility of mere coincidence too far.” Cartwright’s words proved to be eerily prophetic.
On February 22, 1987, Peter Peapell, a lecturer at the Royal College of Military Science who had been consulted by Marconi on various projects, was yet another figure whose death was due to carbon monoxide poisoning in his own garage in the English county of Oxfordshire.
In the same month, David Skeels, a Marconi engineer, was found dead under identical circumstances. Victor Moore was attached to Marconi Space and Defense Systems at the time of his February 1987 death, reportedly of a drug overdose. At the time, he was said to be under investigation by MI5, the British equivalent of the FBI.
One month later, in March 1987, one David Sands killed himself under truly horrific circumstances. He was in the employ of what was called Elliott Automation Space and Advanced Military Systems Ltd—which just happened to have a working relationship with Marconi at the time. Sands, whose family and colleagues said he was exhibiting no signs of stress or strain, loaded his car with containers of gasoline and drove—at “high voltage,” as the police worded it— into an empty restaurant. A fiery death was inevitable.
In April 1987, yet another death occurred of an employee of the Royal College of Military Science: Stuart Gooding, whose car slammed head-on into a truck on the island of Cyprus. Colleagues of Gooding expressed doubt at the accidental death verdict. On the very same day that Gooding died, David Greenhalgh died after falling (or being pushed) off a railway bridge in Maidenhead, Berkshire. Greenhalgh just happened to be working on the same program as David Sands.