Dr David Kelly update

Apparently The Times has a letter today from nine of the country’s leading doctors questioning the verdict that Dr David Kelly killed himself by slitting his wrist. However as I will not pay Rupert Murdoch to get behind his paywall I will have to refer you to The Mail instead. There we read that:

'The eminent medical experts say it is unlikely the weapons inspector could have bled to death in the way the authorities claim – raising fresh doubts that it was suicide.

In an open letter to ministers, they also urge the Government to conduct a full coroner’s inquest to re-examine key medical evidence surrounding the case.

They join a growing chorus of experts who have made their concerns public.

Officially, Dr Kelly, 59, took his own life in woodland near his Oxfordshire home in July 2003 by cutting the ulnar artery in his wrist with a blunt pruning knife.

But a female colleague who served with him in Iraq, Mai Pederson, says a hand and arm injury had left him ‘too weak’ to cut his own wrist. Witnesses say there was little blood at the scene.

And experts have doubts that he lost sufficient blood to cause his death.

It also emerged after the Hutton Inquiry that no fingerprints were found on the knife Dr Kelly is alleged to have used, and that he was not wearing gloves when his body was found.'

Read the whole piece and then catchup on my previous postings as well.

There is so much more to this story than we have been told before. I wonder how the story will be reported by the BBC? I suppose if suspicion falls on MI6 (or similar) then the BBC will report the story with glee but if any links to the last Labour government are raised the story will disappear quicker than you can say 'cover-up'.