machete

He asked: "Did AR have any remote reason - as far as you can really tell - or his family to be ordering machetes?"

Mr Moss said the killer's internet use and purchase of weapons - including machetes and archery equipment - would also be significant.

The case centres on a neo-Nazi state informant known as Agent X who used his MI5 role to coerce his girlfriend, whom he attacked with a machete.

Sativa says he was handcuffed, blindfolded and brutally beaten, including being struck repeatedly on his head, back and legs with the flat side of a machete.

In the report, released on Wednesday, HRW said the M23 used machetes and gunfire to attack people in at least 14 villages and farming areas near the Virunga National Park between 10 and 30 July.