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Dr. David Kelly
(1944-2003) |
orman Baker MP is now conducting his own
investigation into Dr Kelly's death. The 'Kelly Investigation
Group' is working with him.
What is the 'Kelly Investigation Group?'
On 15th July 2003 British government scientist Dr
David Kelly defended himself before a televised Foreign Affairs
Committee against the charge that he had accused the British
government of using false intelligence to justify invading Iraq.
Three days later the world was stunned when he was found dead on
Harrowdown Hill. A judgement of 'suicide', planted early on by
police to reporters, was reinforced by a hastily-convened 'Hutton
Inquiry' which adeptly shifted emphasis away from Dr Kelly's death
and onto reprehensibility of key players in government and at the
BBC.
Peel off the expensive Hutton gloss, and it becomes apparent that a
number of things about Dr Kelly's death do not add up. Oddities and
holes in witness statements to the inquiry, glaringly apparent to a
careful reader, were missed, or ignored, by trained barristers. A
top journalist on a national paper later told me they were ordered
not to ask too many difficult questions. Was there a cover up? I
joined an internet forum, discussed discrepancies in a flurry of
e-mails, and was alerted to a letter in a newspaper from David
Halpin, a surgeon in Devon, who had written to say (15 December
2003):
DAVID HALPIN
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David Halpin |
'We have been told that he died from a cut wrist
and that he had non-lethal levels of an analgesic in his blood.
As a past trauma and orthopaedic surgeon, I cannot easily accept
that even the deepest cut into one wrist would cause such
exsanguination that death resulted. The two arteries are of
matchstick size and would have quickly shut down and clotted.'
Other medical professionals, six of them surgeons, wrote to papers
independently, voicing strong doubts that it was medically possible
for Dr Kelly to have died of haemorrhage after cutting a single
transected ulnar artery. I contacted each of them. The 'Kelly
Investigation Group' was starting to evolve.
The official account of Dr Kelly's death was looking more and more
implausible. Differences between witness accounts may not be
unusual, but the anomalies uncovered from analysing transcripts,
looking at medical evidence, and exchanging insights, painted the
disturbing picture of a body that was twice moved; blood patterning
which did not fit a self-inflicted 'arterial bleed'; a totally
inappropriate choice of knife; a single transected artery which
would have released no more than a pint of blood; insufficient co-proxamol
to have caused death; a disingenuous policeman who lied about the
number of colleagues he was with; three men in black at the scene
who could not have been policemen; and dental records which were
found to be missing on the day of death only to reappear two days
later.
Read about these here:
http://www.deadscientists.blogspot.com/
Five members of the Kelly Investigation Group, three medical, wrote
an 11-page letter to the Coroner expplaining the anomalies in
detail. The letter was ignored. I phoned. He said he had read the
letter but the points we raised fell on deaf ears -- he wouldn't
budge from the official line.The Hutton Inquiry was a sham - it had
no power to subpoena witnesses or have them testify on oath. Nor
were they cross-examined. Had Dr Kelly received an inquest these
powers could have been implemented. In the event, there was no
inquest and no verdict, only a 'conclusion'.
When the authorities stone-wall us, we must fall back on our own
resources. Dr Kelly was a highly intelligent, honourable man who
wanted the world to know about the terrible dangers of chemical and
biological weapons. Judging from the hundreds of e-mails I've
received from across the world, many suspect his death, coming at
this pivotal time for governments on both sides of the Atlantic, was
not suicide -- and they care about what happened to him. Thom Yorke
of 'Radiohead' sings:
'I feel me slipping in and out of
consciousness....You will be dispensed with, when you've become
inconvenient, up on Harrowdown Hill. That's where I'm lying down. Did I fall
or was I pushed? And where's the blood?'
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