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12:34pm UK, Tuesday September 09, 2008
Sara Merchant, Sky News reporter
British detectives will continue to investigate the 'umbrella murder' of a Bulgarian dissident despite officials in Sofia closing the case after 30 years.

By Anna Mudeva

SOFIA (Reuters) - Bulgaria is closing its probe into a Cold War killing, the murder of dissident Georgi Markov in London, but an investigator said no evidence existed to back up the theory that he was stabbed with a poison-tipped umbrella.

Under Bulgarian law, the 30-year statute of limitations on the case expires on Thursday, the anniversary of Markov's death, but Sofia will continue to work with British police on their investigation into the case.

Markov, a writer, journalist and opponent of Bulgaria's then communist regime, died on September 11, 1978 after a stranger shot a ricin-laced pellet into his leg on London's Waterloo Bridge.

Luchezar Penev, head of Bulgaria's Serious Crimes Investigation unit, told Reuters that the popular story that an umbrella was used to inject the poison had not been confirmed.

'The famous umbrella is for someone who is writing a book... there is no evidence for such a thing,' he said.

'The pellet's size was several times smaller to contain the necessary quantity of ricin, if we accept it's ricin, needed to kill a man,' he added but declined to give any other details.

According to accounts of the incident, Markov, who defected to the West in 1969, was waiting for a bus when he felt a sharp sting in his thigh. A stranger fumbled behind him with an umbrella he had dropped and mumbled 'sorry' before walking away

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