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David Christopher Kelly CMG (May 17, 1944 – July 17, 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 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 a Parliamentary committee, to who’s investigation the scandal was subject. Image File history File links Broom_icon. ... Image File history File links Information_icon. ... May 17 is the 137th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (138th in leap years). ... 1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ... Rhondda Cynon Taff (Welsh: Rhondda Cynon Tâf) is a county borough in Glamorgan, South Wales. ... This article is about the country. ... July 17 is the 198th day (199th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar, with 167 days remaining. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Oxfordshire (abbreviated Oxon, from the Latinised form Oxonia) is a county in the South East of England, bordering on Northamptonshire, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, and Warwickshire. ... Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: God Save the King/Queen Capital London (de facto) Largest city London Official language(s) English (de facto) Unification - by Athelstan AD 927 Area - Total 130,395 kmÂ² (1st in UK) 50,346 sq mi Population - 2006 est. ... Seat of the Universal House of Justice in Haifa, Israel, governing body of the BahÃ¡Ãs The BahÃ¡Ã Faith is a religion founded by BahÃ¡ullÃ¡h in 19th century Persia. ... David Kelly can refer to: David Kelly, UN weapons inspector David C. Kelly, mathematics professor David E. Kelley, American television producer David H. Kelley, American archaeologist, epigrapher and Mayanist scholar David Kelly, Irish actor David Kelly, Irish football (soccer) player David Kelly, American actor David Kelly, American poet David Kelly... On the Orders insignia, St Michael is often depicted subduing Satan. ... May 17 is the 137th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (138th in leap years). ... 1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ... July 17 is the 198th day (199th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar, with 167 days remaining. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Ministry of Defence (MOD) is the United Kingdom government department responsible for implementation of government defence policy and the headquarters of the British Armed Forces. ... For the use of biological agents by terrorists, see bioterrorism. ... The foundation of the U.N. The United Nations (UN) is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate co-operation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress and human rights issues. ... Today, sometimes referred to as the Today programme to avoid ambiguity, is BBC Radio 4s long-running early morning news and current affairs programme, which is now broadcast from 6am to 9am from Monday to Friday and from 7am to 9am on Saturdays. ... Andrew Gilligan Andrew Paul Gilligan (born 22 November 1968, Teddington, Middlesex, England) is a journalist best known for his report, while defence and diplomatic correspondent for BBC Radio 4s The Today Programme, about the British Governments dossier on weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. ... For the album, see Weapons of Mass Destruction (album). ... The Houses of Parliament, seen over Westminster Bridge The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the supreme legislative body in the United Kingdom and British overseas territories. ...

The Hutton Inquiry, a public inquiry into the circumstances surrounding his death, ruled that he had committed suicide, and that Kelly had not said some of the quotes attributed to him by Gilligan. Norman Baker, Liberal Democrat member of Parliament, who spent a year investigating the death, has rejected the official findings, saying that the official account of suicide was implausible because the means Kelly was said to have chosen is an unlikely and ineffective means of suicide, and that the most likely cause of death was murder.^[1] The Hutton Inquiry was a British judicial inquiry chaired by Lord Hutton, appointed by the British government to investigate the death of a government weapons expert, Dr. David Kelly. ... Suicide (from Latin sui caedere, to kill oneself) is the willful act of killing oneself. ... Norman John Baker (born 26 July 1957 in Aberdeen) is a British politician. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

Biography

Kelly was born in the Rhondda in Wales. He graduated from Leeds University with a BSc, followed by an MSc at the University of Birmingham. In 1971, he received his doctorate in microbiology from Oxford University (Linacre College). In 1984, he joined the civil service, working at what is now Dstl Porton Down, as head of the Defence Microbiology Division. He moved from there to work as an ad hoc advisor to the MoD and the Foreign Office. Rhondda Cynon Taff (Welsh: Rhondda Cynon Tâf) is a county borough in Glamorgan, South Wales. ... This article is about the country. ... University Tower, University of Leeds The University of Leeds (United Kingdom) is amongst the largest of British universities and the most popular by applicants, with 52,444 applicants in 2003 for 7,228 places (UCAS). ... Website http://www. ... 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday. ... An agar plate streaked with microorganisms Microbiology is the study of microorganisms, which are unicellular or cell-cluster microscopic organisms. ... The University of Oxford, located in the city of Oxford in England, is the oldest university in the English-speaking world. ... College name Linacre College Named after Thomas Linacre Established 1962 Sister College Wolfson College Principal Prof. ... The Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) is an Executive Agency of the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD). ... Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, Porton Down, or often known more simply as Porton Down, is a United Kingdom government facility for military research, including CBRN defence. ... The Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Whitehall, seen from St. ...

In 1989 Kelly was involved in investigations into the Soviet violations of the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention, and was a key member of the inspection team visiting the USSR on several occasions between 1991 and 1994. His experience with biological weapons at Porton Down led to his selection as a United Nations weapons inspector in Iraq following the end of the Gulf War. Kelly's work as a member of the UNSCOM team led him to visit Iraq 37 times, and his success in uncovering Iraq's biological weapons programme caused Rolf Ekéus to nominate him for the Nobel Peace Prize. He was made a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in 1996. Biological Weapons Convention Opened for signature April 10, 1972 at Moscow, Washington and London Entered into force March 26, 1975 Conditions for entry into force ??? Parties ??? The Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on their Destruction (usually referred to... Biological Weapons: Friend or Foe? By Dom Harris There is great debate about whether biological weapons are good or bad, and whether the world should be concerned about their development. ... The foundation of the U.N. The United Nations (UN) is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate co-operation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress and human rights issues. ... Combatants UN Coalition Republic of Iraq Commanders Norman Schwarzkopf, Peter de la BilliÃ¨re, Khalid bin Sultan, Saleh Al-Muhaya, Mohamed Hussein Tantawi Saddam Hussein Strength 883,863 360,000 Casualties 378 dead, 1,000 wounded 25,000 dead, 75,000 wounded The Gulf War or the Persian Gulf War... United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM) was a United Nations organisation performing arms inspections in Iraq after the Gulf War. ... Rolf EkÃ©us (born 1935) is a Swedish diplomat. ... Lester B. Pearson after accepting the Nobel Peace Prize The Nobel Peace Prize (Norwegian: Nobels fredspris) is the name of one of five Nobel Prizes bequested by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel. ... On the Orders insignia, St Michael is often depicted subduing Satan. ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ...

Although never a member of the intelligence services, the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) regularly sought out his opinion on Iraq and other issues. David Kelly became a member of the Bahá'í Faith in about 1999. Bahá'í teachings condemn suicide and discourage a close involvement with party politics. The Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), commonly known as MI6, is the United Kingdoms external intelligence agency. ... Seat of the Universal House of Justice in Haifa, Israel, governing body of the BahÃ¡Ãs The BahÃ¡Ã Faith is a religion founded by BahÃ¡ullÃ¡h in 19th century Persia. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ...

Involvement with the WMD dossier

Kelly's specialism led to confusion about his actual job as he was frequently seconded to other departments. His job description included liaison with the media and he regularly acted as a confidential source, although rarely going on the record or appearing on-camera. In 2002, he was working for the Defence Intelligence Staff at the time of the compilation of a dossier by the Joint Intelligence Committee on the weapons of mass destruction possessed by Iraq. The government had commissioned the dossier as part of the preparation of what later became the 2003 invasion of Iraq. For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... The Defence Intelligence Staff is part of the United Kingdoms Ministry of Defence. ... The September Dossier is the name given to a document published by the United Kingdom Labour government on 24 September 2002. ... The Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC) was founded in 1936 as a sub-committee of the Committee of Imperial Defence. ... Combatants Coalition Forces: United States United Kingdom South Korea Australia Poland Romania others. ...

Although not responsible for writing any part of the dossier, Kelly's experience of weapons inspections led to him being asked to proofread sections of the draft dossier on the history of inspections. Kelly was unhappy with some of the claims in the draft, particularly a claim, originating from August 2002, that Iraq was capable of firing battlefield biological and chemical weapons within 45 minutes of an order to use them. Kelly's colleagues queried the inclusion of the claim but their superiors were satisfied when they took it up with MI6 through the Joint Intelligence Committee. Proofreading means reading a proof copy of a text in order to detect and correct any errors. ...

Kelly believed it was most likely that Iraq had retained biological weapons after the end of inspections. ^[2] After the end of the ground war, he was invited to join the inspection team trying to find any trace of weapons of mass destruction programmes, and was apparently enthusiastic about resuming his work there. He made two attempted trips to Iraq, the first was on 19 May 2003, he tried to enter Iraq from Kuwait but he could not get in because he did not have the proper documentation. May 19 is the 139th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (140th in leap years). ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

The second trip was from 5 June 2003 - 11 June 2003, when Dr Kelly went to view and photograph the two mobile weapons laboratories as a part of a third inspection team. Dr Kelly was unhappy with the description of the trailers and spoke off the record to the London Observer, which, on 15 June 2003, quoted "a British scientist and biological weapons expert, who has examined the trailers in Iraq". The expert said, June 5 is the 156th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (157th in leap years), with 209 days remaining. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... June 11 is the 162nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (163rd in leap years), with 203 days remaining. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Purported Iraqi mobile weapons laboratories Mobile weapons laboratories were purported to be bioreactors and other processing equipment to manufacture and process biological weapons Then Secretary of State Colin L. Powell gave a presentation before the United Nations in February of 2003 showing a computer generated view of what the laboratories... June 15 is the 166th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (167th in leap years), with 199 days remaining. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

"They are not mobile germ warfare laboratories. You could not use them for making biological weapons. They do not even look like them. They are exactly what the Iraqis said they were - facilities for the production of hydrogen gas to fill balloons."[1]

It was confirmed in the Hutton Inquiry that Dr Kelly was the source of this quote.[2] The Hutton Inquiry was a British judicial inquiry chaired by Lord Hutton, appointed by the British government to investigate the death of a government weapons expert, Dr. David Kelly. ...

Contact with Andrew Gilligan

On May 22, 2003, at the Charing Cross hotel in London, Kelly met with Andrew Gilligan, a BBC journalist who had spent some time writing about the war in Baghdad. Kelly was anxious to learn what had happened in Iraq, while Gilligan, who had discussed a very early draft of the dossier with Kelly, wished to ask him about it in light of the failure to find any weapons of mass destruction. They agreed to talk on an unattributable basis, which allowed the BBC to report what was said, but not to identify the source. Kelly told Gilligan of his concerns over the 45-minute claim and ascribed its inclusion in the dossier to Alastair Campbell, the director of communications for Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair. May 22 is the 142nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (143rd in leap years). ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Andrew Gilligan Andrew Paul Gilligan (born 22 November 1968, Teddington, Middlesex, England) is a journalist best known for his report, while defence and diplomatic correspondent for BBC Radio 4s The Today Programme, about the British Governments dossier on weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. ... This article is an overview article about the Crown chartered British Broadcasting Corporation formed in 1927. ... Baghdad (Arabic ) is the capital of Iraq and of Baghdad Governorate. ... It has been suggested that Attribution (journalism) be merged into this article or section. ... Alastair Campbell Alastair John Campbell (born May 25, 1957) was the Director of Communications and Strategy for 10 Downing Street. ... The Labour Party has been, since its founding in the early 20th century, the principal political party of the left in the United Kingdom. ... The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is, in practice, the political leader of the the United Kingdom. ... For other people of the same name, see Tony Blair (disambiguation) Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born May 6, 1953)[1] is the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, First Lord of the Treasury, Minister for the Civil Service, Leader of the Labour Party, and Member of Parliament for the constituency...

Gilligan broadcast his report on May 29, 2003 on the Today programme, in which he said that the 45-minute claim had been placed in the dossier by the government, even though it knew the claim was dubious. In a subsequent article in the Mail on Sunday newspaper, Gilligan directly identified Alastair Campbell as the person responsible. The story caused a political storm, with the government denying any involvement in the intelligence content of the dossier. The government pressed the BBC to reveal the name of the source because it knew that any source who was not a member of the Joint Intelligence Committee would not have known who had a role in the preparation of the dossier. May 29 is the 149th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (150th in leap years). ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Today, sometimes referred to as the Today programme to avoid ambiguity, is BBC Radio 4s long-running early morning news and current affairs programme, which is now broadcast from 6am to 9am from Monday to Friday and from 7am to 9am on Saturdays. ... The Daily Mail and its Sunday edition the Mail on Sunday are British newspapers, first published in 1896. ... Alastair Campbell Alastair John Campbell (born May 25, 1957) was the Director of Communications and Strategy for 10 Downing Street. ...

As the political fight ensued, Kelly knew he had talked to the journalist involved but felt that he had not said exactly what was reported. He also told his friend and work colleague Olivia Bosch that his meeting with Andrew Gilligan had been 'unauthorised' and therefore outside his terms of employment. On June 30, 2003, he wrote to his line manager at the Ministry of Defence to report his contact with Gilligan, though he added "I am convinced that I am not his primary source of information". June 30 is the 181st day of the year (182nd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 184 days remaining. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Kelly was interviewed twice by his employers, who concluded that they could not be sure he was Gilligan's only source. Eventually they took the decision to publicise the fact that someone had come forward who might be the source. The announcement contained sufficient clues for alert journalists to guess Kelly's identity and the Ministry of Defence confirmed the name when it was put to them. This was not a normal procedure (it normally refuses to comment on such matters), and it has been suggested that the Ministry of Defence was implementing a government decision to reveal Kelly's name as part of a strategy to discredit Gilligan.

Kelly was extremely disturbed by the publicity and arranged with a family friend to leave his home and visit Cornwall with his wife. He was asked to appear as a witness before two committees of the House of Commons that were investigating the situation in Iraq, and was further upset by the news that one of the appearances would be in public. He had been given a formal warning by the Ministry of Defence for an unauthorised meeting with a journalist, and had been made to understand that they might take more action if it turned out he had been lying to them. Cornwall (Cornish: Kernow) is a county in South West England, United Kingdom, on the peninsula that lies to the west of the River Tamar. ... The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ...

Appearance before House of Commons committees

When he appeared before the Foreign Affairs Select Committee on July 15, 2003, Kelly appeared to be under severe stress. He spoke with a voice so soft that the air-conditioning equipment had to be turned off on one of the hottest days of the year. His evidence to the committee was that he had not said the things Gilligan had reported his source as saying, and members of the committee came to the conclusion that he had not been the source. However, some of the questioning was extremely pointed and appeared disrespectful to Kelly. July 15 is the 196th day (197th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 169 days remaining. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

During the hearing, he was closely tackled about several quotes given to Susan Watts, another BBC journalist working on Newsnight, who had reported a similar story. It later emerged that Gilligan had himself told members of the committee that Watts' source was also Kelly. Kelly denied any knowledge of the quotes, but must have realised that he would have serious problems if the Ministry of Defence believed he had been the source of them. Susan Watts is the science editor of the BBCs Newsnight programme, joining the programme in January 1995. ... Newsnight is a British daily news analysis, current affairs and politics programme broadcast between 22:30 and 23:20 on weekdays on BBC Two. ...

On the following day, (July 16, 2003), Kelly gave evidence to the Intelligence and Security Committee. He told them that he liaised with Operation Rockingham within the Defence Intelligence Staff. July 16 is the 197th day (198th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 168 days remaining. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Intelligence and Security Committee is a unique committee, as it is not a committee of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ... Operation Rockingham was the codeword for UK involvement in inspections in Iraq following the war over Kuwait in 1990-91. ...

Death

On the morning of July 17, 2003, Kelly was working as usual at home in Oxfordshire. Publicity given to his public appearance two days before had led many of his friends to send him supportive e-mails, to which he was responding. One of the e-mails he sent that day was to New York Times journalist Judith Miller [3], who had used Kelly as a source in a book on bioterrorism, to whom Kelly mentioned "many dark actors playing games," [4] [5] (pdf). He also received an e-mail from his superiors at the Ministry of Defence asking for more details of his contact with journalists. July 17 is the 198th day (199th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar, with 167 days remaining. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Oxfordshire (abbreviated Oxon, from the Latinised form Oxonia) is a county in the South East of England, bordering on Northamptonshire, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, and Warwickshire. ... Electronic mail, abbreviated e-mail or email, is a method of composing, sending, and receiving messages over electronic communication systems. ... The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ... Judith Miller Judith P. Miller (born January 2, 1948), is an American journalist. ...

At about 15:00, Kelly told his wife that he was going for a walk as he did every day. He appears to have gone directly to an area of woodlands known as Harrowdown Hill about a mile away from his home, where he allegedly ingested up to 29 tablets of co-proxamol, an analgesic drug. He then allegedly cut his left wrist with a knife he had owned since his youth. Dextropropoxyphene is an analgesic in the opioid category. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ...

Investigation

Kelly's wife reported him missing shortly after midnight that night, and he was found early the next morning. ^[3] The government immediately announced that Lord Hutton would lead the judicial Hutton Inquiry into the events leading up to the death. The BBC shortly afterwards confirmed that Kelly had indeed been the single source for Andrew Gilligan's report. Lord Hutton James Brian Edward Hutton, Baron Hutton, PC (born 29 June 1932), is a former British Law Lord. ... The Hutton Inquiry was a British judicial inquiry chaired by Lord Hutton, appointed by the British government to investigate the death of a government weapons expert, Dr. David Kelly. ...

The Hutton Inquiry reported on January 28, 2004 confirming that Kelly had committed suicide. Lord Hutton wrote: January 28 is the 28th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Hutton concluded, controversially, that the Ministry of Defence were obliged to make Kelly's identity known once he came forward as a potential source, and had not acted in a duplicitous manner. However, Hutton criticised the MoD for not alerting Dr Kelly to the fact that his name had become known to the press.

Concerns regarding official account

During the Hutton inquiry, a British ambassador called David Broucher reported a conversation with Dr Kelly at a Geneva meeting in February 2003, which he described as from "deep within the memory hole". Broucher related that Kelly said he had assured his Iraqi sources that there would be no war if they co-operated, and that a war would put him in an 'ambiguous' moral position. [6] Broucher had asked Kelly what would happen if Iraq were invaded, and Kelly had replied, 'I will probably be found dead in the woods.' Broucher then quoted from an email he had sent just after Kelly's death: 'I did not think much of this at the time, taking it to be a hint that the Iraqis might try to take revenge against him, something that did not seem at all fanciful then. I now see that he may have been thinking on rather different lines.' Hunters a cool hobo For other uses, see Geneva (disambiguation). ...

Although suicide was officially accepted as the cause of death, some medical experts have raised doubts, suggesting that the evidence does not back this up. The most detailed objection was provided in a letter from three medical doctors published in The Guardian [7], reinforced by support from two other senior physicians in a later letter to the Guardian [8]. These doctors argued that the autopsy finding of a transected ulnar artery could not have caused a degree of blood loss that would kill someone, particularly when outside in the cold (where vasoconstriction would slow blood loss). Further, this conflicted with the minimal amount of blood found at the scene. They also contended that the amount of co-proxamol found was only about a third of what would normally be fatal. Dr Rouse, a British epidemiologist wrote to the BMJ pointing out that the act of committing suicide by severing wrist arteries is an extremely rare occurrence in a 59 year old man with no previous psychiatric history [9]. Nobody else died from that cause during the year. The Guardian is a British newspaper owned by the Guardian Media Group. ... Post-mortem, postmortem and post mortem redirect here. ... The ulnar artery is the main blood vessel, with oxygenated blood, of the medial aspect of the forearm. ... The blood vessels are part of the circulatory system and function to transport blood throughout the body. ... Epidemiology (Greek epi = upon, among; demos = people, district; logos = word, discourse), defined literally, is the study of epidemics in humans. ... The British Medical Journal (BMJ) is a medical journal published weekly in the United Kingdom by the British Medical Association (BMA)which published its first issue in 1845. ...

Dave Bartlett and Vanessa Hunt, the two paramedics who were called to the scene of Kelly's death, have since gone public with their view that there was not enough blood at the location to justify the belief that he died from blood loss. Bartlett and Hunt told The Guardian that they saw a small amount of blood on plants near Kelly's body and a patch of blood the size of a coin on his trousers. They said they would expect to find several pints of blood at the scene of a suicide involving an arterial cut.^[4]^[5] A Paramedic is a specialized health care professional who responds to medical and trauma emergencies in the pre-hospital (out-of-hospital) environment for the purpose of stabilizing and transporting the patient to an appropriate medical facility, usually by ambulance. ...

However, two of Britain's top forensic pathologists, Professor Chris Milroy and Professor Guy Rutty, dismissed the paramedics' claims, saying it is hard to judge blood loss from the scene of a death, as some blood may have seeped into the ground. Professor Milroy also told The Guardian that Kelly's heart condition may have made it hard for him to sustain any significant degree of blood loss.^[6]

The Hutton Inquiry took priority over an inquest, which would normally be required into a suspicious death [10]. The Oxfordshire coroner Nicholas Gardiner considered the issue again in March 2004. After reviewing evidence that had not been presented to the Hutton Inquiry, Gardiner decided that there was no need for further investigation. This conclusion did not satisfy those who had raised doubts, but there has been no alternative explanation for Kelly's death. An inquest is a formal process of state investigation. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Norman Baker MP announced on 19 May 2006 that he plans to investigate the "unanswered questions" from the official inquiry into the death of weapons scientist Dr David Kelly.[11] Since then he has announced that he has evidence to show that Kelly did not die from natural causes.^[7] In July 06 Baker claimed his hard drive was wiped remotely.^[8] Norman John Baker (born 26 July 1957 in Aberdeen) is a British politician. ... May 19 is the 139th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (140th in leap years). ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ...

The BBC for a programme on Kelly, screened on February 25, 2007 in The Conspiracy Files series^[9], commissioned an opinion poll to establish the views of the public on his death. 22.7% of those surveyed thought Kelly had not killed himself, 38.8% of people believe Dr Kelly committed suicide and 38.5% did not know.^[10] The British Broadcasting Corporation, usually known as the BBC (and also informally known as the Beeb or Auntie) is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world in terms of audience numbers, employing 26,000 staff in the United Kingdom alone and with a budget of more than GBÂ£4 billion... February 25 is the 56th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the Anno Domini (common) era. ... Opinion polls are surveys of opinion using sampling. ...

In popular culture

Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke's 2006 solo album The Eraser includes the track "Harrowdown Hill", named after the place where Kelly's body was found. Lyrics include "Don't ask me, ask the ministry" and "Did I fall or was I pushed? And where's the blood?", among others, clearly referencing the incident. Yorke has been quoted as saying it is the angriest song he has ever written [12]. Radiohead are an English rock band from Abingdon, Oxfordshire, initially formed in 1986. ... Thomas Edward Yorke (born October 7, 1968 in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, England) is best known as the lead singer of the English alternative rock band Radiohead. ... The Eraser is the first solo album by Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke, released on July 10, 2006 in the United Kingdom and on July 11 in the United States and Canada. ... Harrowdown Hill is a song by Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke and is featured on his 2006 album The Eraser. ...

Scottish singer Colin MacIntyre, who performs and records under the name Mull Historical Society, has also written a song about Dr. Kelly's apparent suicide entitled "Death of a Scientist (A Vision of Man Over Machine 2004)" on his 2004 album This is Hope. Mull Historical Society is Colin MacIntyre (b. ... This is Hope (2004) is the third and arguably best Mull Historical Society album. ...

Poet Simon Armitage's 2006 collection Tyrannosaurus Rex versus the Corduroy Kid opens with a poem entitled 'Hand-Washing Technique - Government Guidelines', bearing the dedication i.m. Dr David Kelly. Most notably, as the poem progresses the description of the hand-washing technique becomes increasingly complex, a clear sense of pressure and tension mounting. Simon Armitage Simon Armitage (born May 26, 1963 in Huddersfield) is a British poet, playwright and novelist. ...

Filmography

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Contents

Biography

Involvement with the WMD dossier

Contact with Andrew Gilligan

Appearance before House of Commons committees

Death

Investigation

Concerns regarding official account

In popular culture

Filmography

Notes

References

See also

External links

Contents

Biography GA_googleFillSlot("encyclopedia_square");

Involvement with the WMD dossier

Contact with Andrew Gilligan

Appearance before House of Commons committees

Death

Investigation

Concerns regarding official account

In popular culture

Filmography

Notes

References

See also

External links

Biography