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Thursday, August 10, 2006 |
The David Kelly Story Part 4:
The Murder of Dr. David Kelly
[Part 1 of 2]
by Jim Rarey, Oct 14, 2003
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Last Updated:
Saturday, August 12, 2006 11:14:38 AM |
(This first part lays out the case from the evidence presented in the Hutton
inquiry why the death of Dr. David Kelly was not by suicide.
Part two will
show the reasons, in this writer's opinion, Dr. Kelly was killed.)
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Jim Rarey |
n Thursday,
July 17th sometime between 3 and 3:30pm, Dr. David Kelly started out
on his usual afternoon walk. About 18 hours later, searchers found
his body, left wrist slit, in a secluded lane on Harrowdown Hill.
Kelly, the UK's premier microbiologist, was in the center of a
political maelstrom having been identified as the 'leak' in
information about the 'dossier' Prime Minister Tony Blair had used
to justify the war against Iraq.
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David
Kelly (1944-2003) |
While the Hutton inquiry appears set to declare Kelly's death a
suicide and the national media are already treating it as a given,
there are numerous red flags raised in the testimony and evidence at
the inquiry itself.
Kelly's body was likely moved from where he died to the site where
two search volunteers with a search dog found it. The body was
propped up against a tree according to the testimony of both
volunteers. The volunteers reported the find to police headquarters,
Thames Valley Police (TVP) and then left the scene. On their way
back to their car, they met three 'police' officers, one of them
named Detective Constable Graham Peter Coe.
Coe and his men were alone at the site for 25-30 minutes before the
first police actually assigned to search the area arrived (Police
Constables Sawyer and Franklin) and took charge of the scene from
Coe. They found the body flat on its back a short distance from the
tree, as did all subsequent witnesses.
A logical explanation is that Dr. Kelly died at a different site and
the body was transported to the place it was found. This is
buttressed by the medical findings of livor mortis (post mortem
lividity), which indicates that Kelly died on his back, or at least
was moved to that position shortly after his death. Propping the
body against the tree was a mistake that had to be rectified.
The search dog and its handler must have interrupted whoever was
assigned to go back and move the body to its back before it was
done. After the volunteers left the scene the body was moved to its
back while DC Coe was at the scene.
Five witnesses said in their testimony that two men accompanied Coe.
Yet, in his testimony, Coe maintained there was only one other
beside himself. He was not questioned about the discrepancy.
Researchers, including this writer, assume the presence of the
'third man' could not be satisfactorily explained and so was being
denied.
Additionally, Coe's explanation of why he was in the area is
unsubstantiated. To the contrary, when PC Franklin was asked if Coe
was part of the search team he responded, 'No. He was at the scene.
I had no idea what he was doing there or why he was there. He was
just at the scene when PC Sawyer and I arrived.'
Franklin was responsible for coordinating the search with the chief
investigating officer and then turning it over to Sawyer to assemble
the search team and take them to the assigned area. They were just
starting to leave the station (about 9am on the 18th) to be the
first search team on the ground (excepting the volunteers with the
search dog) when they got word the body had been found.
A second red flag is the nature of the wounds on Kelly's wrist. Dr.
Nicholas Hunt, who performed the autopsy, testified there were
several superficial 'scratches' or cuts on the wrist and one deep
wound that severed the ulnar artery but not the radial artery.
The fact that the ulnar artery was severed, but not the radial
artery, strongly suggests that the knife wound was inflicted drawing
the blade from the inside of the wrist (the little finger side
closest to the body) to the outside where the radial artery is
located much closer to the surface of the skin than is the ulnar
artery. For those familiar with first aid, the radial artery is the
one used to determine the pulse rate.
Just hold your left arm out with the palm up and see how difficult
it would be to slash across the wrist avoiding the radial artery
while severing the ulnar artery. However, a second person situated
to the left of Kelly who held or picked up the arm and slashed
across the wrist would start on the inside of the wrist severing the
ulnar artery first.
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