Simplythebeast, et al: please try and stay with it, eh? You are on a rumour network here (the clue is actually in the word Pprune). If we all stayed quiet until the AAIB responded, there would be no PPrune!
The nature of the beast is that we discuss options and assumptions......
Chopjock - you should know better by now. Quite a few newbie's come on here to look and learn. Telling them it's normal to "Scud Run" is not good for them or the fraternity, is it.
Scud running is illegal and will almost certainly lead to IIMC at some stage. And as Crab said - flying lo and slo under clouds is certainly a recipe for diaster.
A shallow descent out of IMC is pure fantasy. To achieve this one has to be able to "FLY" a controlled flight path on instruments to achieve the departure path you require to regain VFR, doesn't it and as Homonculus states - once in cloud and without currency, you are living on borrowed time and will almost certainly lose control of your aircraft, very very quickly - probably as this guy did.
C'mon chopjock polish your act up and act responsibly now
