*Ø* Blogmanac | Doctors question Kelly 'suicide'

"Fresh doubts about the death of Dr David Kelly, the British weapons expert, were raised yesterday by three doctors who questioned whether he took his own life.

"The doctors suggested that the former United Nations weapons inspector could not have committed suicide in the way described to the inquiry chaired by Lord Brian Hutton.

"Kelly was found dead in a copse near his Oxfordshire home in July after being named as the source of a BBC report claiming that the Government had sexed up an intelligence dossier on the threat from Iraq.

"A forensic pathologist, Dr Nicholas Hunt, told the Hutton inquiry that Kelly had bled to death from a self-inflicted wound to his left wrist. But Dr David Halpin, a former consultant in trauma and orthopaedic medicine at Torbay Hospital, Devon, and two colleagues, question this account ..."
Source: New Zealand Herald

Suicide "improbable": Doctors


I have an open mind on the cause of David Kelly's controversial death. However, I have my suspicions. The following is something I haven't fully read, but intend to today. I log it here not as an endorsement (Blogmanac posts never are) but as background material to this week's media overload over the Hutton Report: The Murder of David Kelly