 An inquest jury returned an open verdict but the coroner announced that he was satisfied that the body was that of Lionel Crabb.On 26 March 2006, "The Mail On Sunday" published an article by Tim Binding entitled "Buster Crabb was murdered - by MI5".Binding wrote a fictionalised account of Crabb's life, "Man Overboard" which was published by Picador in 2005.