Talk - The Strange Death Of David Kelly

There is no doubt that the death of Dr David Kelly, the weapons inspector found dead in the woods near his Oxfordshire home in July 2003, was suspicious. Norman Baker MP, who is writing a book about the subject, believes it was very suspicious indeed. “It was a startling event in a very highly charged political period,” he says, sitting in his office in the old library building, handing me a photocopy of the article he wrote on the subject for the Mail on Sunday last July. “After it happened I naively waited for the results of the Hutton Inquiry with interest, to find out more about what happened. When the report was published it turned out to be a complete fiasco.”
“The report spent its whole time adjudicating between the government and the BBC,” he continues. “It suggested that the BBC was guilty of heinous treason for questioning the ‘sexed up’ dossier on Weapons of Mass Destruction, while the government, which waged an illegal war at the cost of huge numbers of deaths, got off scot free. Gavyn Davies and Greg Dyke subsequently had to resign, over one sloppy report that appeared at six in the morning. Poor Dr Kelly hardly got a look in.” Baker smelt a rat.
He started raising questions which Hutton had not considered. Why would such a knowledgeable man choose to kill himself with a blunt gardening tool? Why did he choose to dig into a minor (ulnar) artery deep in his wrist when he would have known it would have been much more effective to slash a major one lengthways? Why were the paramedics who arrived on the scene surprised at the lack of blood around his body? Why did he leave one Coproxamol pill in the packet that he allegedly took to alleviate the pain of his suicide, and why was there such a small dose of painkiller in his stomach?