Politicians have nothing to hide. They tell truth. They work
for the people not for themselves. David Christopher Kelly the UN chemicals weapons
expert on Iraq who questioned the Tony Blair's dossiers on Iraq’s weapons
of Mass destruction had committed suicide.
Now the truth;
Liberal Democrat MP for Lewes, Norman Baker researched
the circumstances surrounding the death of David Kelly. His findings are revealed
in his book “The Strange Death of David Kelly”. In it, he claims:
• No
fingerprints were found on the gardening knife allegedly used by the scientist
to cut one of his wrists;
• Only
one other person in the whole of the British Isles committed suicide in the
same way as the scientist allegedly did in 2003;
•
There was an astonishing lack of blood at the scene despite death being
officially recorded as due to a severed artery;
• The
level of painkillers found in Dr Kelly's stomach was "less than a
third" of a normal fatal overdose.
The
Lewes MP also suggests that the knife and packs of painkillers found beside Dr
Kelly's body were taken from his home in Southmoor, Oxfordshire, during a
police search after his death and later planted at the scene.
Mr Baker explains: "Essentially, it
seems to refer to an assassination, perhaps carried out in a hurry."
Now the details;
On 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 U.K.'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.
Lord Hutton concluded that "the
principal cause of death was bleeding from incised wounds to his left wrist
which Dr Kelly had inflicted on himself with the knife found beside his
body". While the Hutton inquiry has closed the matter as suicide, 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 proved 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.
A reasonably competent medical examiner or
forensic pathologist would certainly be able to determine in which direction
the knife was drawn across the wrist. That question was never asked nor the
answer volunteered. In fact, a complete autopsy report would state in which
direction the wounds were inflicted. The coroner's inquest was never completed
as it was preempted by the Hutton inquiry and the autopsy report will not be
made public. Neither will the toxicology report.
Two paramedics who arrived by ambulance at
the same time as Franklin and Sawyer (some time after 9am) and accompanied them
to where the body was located. After checking the eyes and signs of a pulse or
breathing, they attached four electro-cardiogram pads to Kelly's chest and
hooked them up to a portable electro-cardiograph. When no signs of heart
activity were found they unofficially confirmed death. One paramedic (Vanessa
Hunt) said the Police asked them to leave the pads on the body. The other
paramedic (David Bartlett) said they always left the pads on the body.
Both paramedics testified that DC Coe had two
men with him. Curiously, both also volunteered that there was a surprisingly
small amount of blood at the scene for an artery having been severed.
When the forensic pathologist (Dr. Nicholas
Hunt) who performed the autopsy testified, he described copious amounts of
blood at the scene. He also described scratches and bruises that Kelly
"stumbling around" in the heavy underbrush may have caused. He said
there was no indication of a struggle or Kelly having been forcibly restrained.
However, the police made an extensive search
of the area and found no indication of anyone, including Kelly, having been in
the heavy underbrush.
Strangely, none of the witnesses mentioned
anything about rigor mortis (stiffening of the body) which is useful in setting
the approximate time of death. Even Dr. Hunt, when was asked directly what
changes on the body he observed that would have happened after death, failed to
mention rigor mortis. He only named livor mortis. Hunt set the time of death
within a range of 4:15pm on the 17th to 1:15am the next morning. He based the
estimate on body temperature which he did not take until 7:15pm on the 18th,
some seven hours after he arrived on the scene.
A forensic biologist (Roy James Green) had
been asked to examine the scene. He said the amount of blood he saw was consistent
with a severed artery. Green works for the same private company (Forensic Alliance) as Dr. Hunt. A majority
of the company's work is done for police organizations.
The afternoon of the 18th DC Coe turned up at
the Kelly residence accompanied by a man identified only as "an
attachment," who acted as an "exhibits officer" presumably
collecting documents in behalf of some other government agency.
Detective Constable Coe and those
accompanying him are somewhat of a mystery. There are no corroborating
witnesses to any of his actions to which he testified (other than "just
being there" at the scene where the body was found).
However, on a listing of evidence provided to
the Hutton inquiry by Thames Valley Police is a reference to a document
described thusly, "TVP Tactical Support Major Incident Policy Book…Between
1430 17.07.03 and 930 18.07.03. DCI Alan Young. It is labeled "not for
release – Police operational information." Many of the exhibits are
labeled that way or are not to be released as personal information.
The police took over 300 statements from
witnesses but less than 70 were forwarded to the Hutton inquiry. Witness
statements were not to be released (even to the inquiry) unless the witness
signed an authorization permitting it. TVP also withheld witness interviews
they did not consider "relevant" to the inquiry. Witnesses were not
put under oath so it is impossible for the public to know if their public
statements are at variance with what they told police. The ‘tactical support"
document must have been considered relevant to the inquiry on Kelly's death or
it wouldn't have been forwarded.
So this "tactical support" began at
2:30pm on the 17th, about one hour before Dr. Kelly left the house on his final
walk. It ended at 9:30am the following morning about the time DC Coe and his
men left the death scene. The obvious question is, to what was TVP giving
tactical support? The name given the effort was "Operation Mason."
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