David Kelly
Dr David Christopher Kelly, CMG (14 May 1944–17 July 2003) was an employee of the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence (MoD), an expert in biological warfare and a former United Nations weapons inspector in Iraq. Kelly's discussion with BBC Radio 4 Today programme journalist Andrew Gilligan about the British government's dossier on weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in Iraq inadvertently caused a major political scandal. He was found dead days after appearing before the Parliamentary committee charged with investigating the scandal.
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13 August 2010. Experts urge full inquest into David Kelly death [1] [2]
LONDON — A group of prominent experts on Friday called for a full inquest into the death of government weapons inspector David Kelly, whose apparent suicide in July 2003 plunged then prime minister Tony Blair into crisis. The eight senior figures said in a letter to The Times newspaper that the official cause of death in the Kelly case, haemorrhage, was "extremely unlikely" in the light of evidence since made public. The signatories included a former coroner, Michael Powers, a former deputy coroner, Margaret Bloom, and Julian Bion, a professor of intensive care medicine.
External Links
- Dr David Kelly: The damning new evidence that points to a cover-up by Tony Blair's government - Daily Mail 26 June 2010
- David Kelly (weapons expert)
- Dr David Kelly's body 'had obviously been moved': Paramedic at death scene reveals concerns over Hutton Inquiry - Mail Online 12 September 2010. The report also reveals that the Statutory Paramedic reports of their attendance at the scene has been "lost" and the copy of it scanned onto the NHS computer system as a matter of routine "Cannot be found either".
- Mystery of the helicopter that landed at scene of Dr Kelly's death after his body was found Daily Mail 14 May 2011
