Why was there no full coroner’s report on the reasons for his death? Why would a man whose religious beliefs forbade suicide take his own life, a few weeks before his daughter’s wedding? Why was Kelly’s wife told to stand in the garden in the middle of the night preceding the discovery of his body while police searched his house? Why did the police erect a 45-foot antenna in his garden that night? Why did the people who discovered his body not notice the bottle of water and wristwatch later found on the scene? Why did the police mount a murder enquiry nine hours before he was reported missing? So many whys. And not one answer from Hutton.

“I received about 1,000 contacts from the public after the article in the Mail,” says Baker. Most were just to wish me well in my enquiries. About 50 pointed me to interesting evidence already in the public domain. About 15-20 were real and sensible leads which I am following up. I have become sure of one thing. Dr Kelly did not commit suicide. It remains to be seen how he did die. There are a number of possible explanations. I’m involved in eliminating those that prove to be impossible, and working out what really happened.”

He will not be giving any answers in Tuesday’s talk, but he will be going into where he has got to in his investigations in some depth, and raising further questions that must be addressed on the matter. Does he not, I wonder, feel that what he is doing is dangerous? “I have borne this in mind,” he says. “I have been very open about what I am doing and I suppose that being an MP offers me some sort of protection.” AL