Prominent experts: the official cause of death was ‘extremely unlikely’
Calls for inquest into death of UK weapons inspector who exposed ‘sexed up’ Iraq dossier.
LONDON – A group of prominent experts on Friday called for a full inquest into the death of British 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.
Kelly was found dead in woods near his home in Oxfordshire, southern England, in 2003 after he was exposed as the source for a BBC story that alleged that Blair’s government had “sexed up” intelligence on Iraqi weapons of mass destruction.
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An inquest, as I understand things, would only be able to record a verdict of suicide if such could be proved "beyond all reasonable doubt". The 'Hutton' evidence falls very short of this in my opinion and now there is more information in the public domain to challenge Hutton: for example - no fingerprints on the knife, Kelly allegedly having a marked weakness in his right hand.
I doubt that we will ever know all the answers but I am sure that Lord Hutton's conclusion is unsafe.
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