David Christopher Kelly CMG (17/5/1944 - 17/7/2003) was an employee of the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence (MoD), an expert in biological warfare, and a former United Nations weapons inspector in Iraq. Kelly's discussion with Today programme journalist Andrew Gilligan about the British government's dossier on weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in Iraq inadvertently caused a major political scandal. He was found dead days after appearing before a Parliamentary committee investigating it.
The Hutton Inquiry, a public inquiry into the circumstances surrounding his death, ruled that he had committed suicide, and that Kelly had not said some of the quotes attributed to him by Gilligan. Norman Baker, Liberal Democrat member of Parliament, who spent a year investigating the death, has rejected the official findings, saying that the official account of suicide was implausible because the means Kelly was said to have chosen is an unlikely and ineffective means of suicide, and that the most likely cause of death was murder.
I never normally buy into conspiracy theories - but this one seems true!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Kelly
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