13/08/2010
Calls For New David Kelly Inquest
A group of legal and medical experts are demanding a fresh inquest into the death of Government weapons inspector Dr David Kelly.
The group of eight senior figures, which includes former coroner Michael Powers, former deputy coroner Margaret Bloom and Julian Bion, a professor of intensive care medicine, have said that the official cause of death - a haemorrhage - was "extremely unlikely", in the light of new evidence.
The group made the call for a fresh inquest in an open letter published in The Times newspaper.
Dr Kelly, 59, was found dead in an area of woodlands known as Harrowdown Hill, about a mile from his home in Oxfordshire in July 2003, just days after he was exposed as the source of a BBC story about an allegedly "sexed up" dossier on the grounds for invading Iraq.
An inquiry conducted by Lord Hutton concluded that Dr Kelly had died as a result of a severed ulnar artery, caused by slashing his left wrist with a blunt knife he had since his youth.
However, the experts have argued that such an injury was unlikely to be life-threatening unless the person had a blood-clotting deficiency.
(KMcA/BMcC)
The group of eight senior figures, which includes former coroner Michael Powers, former deputy coroner Margaret Bloom and Julian Bion, a professor of intensive care medicine, have said that the official cause of death - a haemorrhage - was "extremely unlikely", in the light of new evidence.
The group made the call for a fresh inquest in an open letter published in The Times newspaper.
Dr Kelly, 59, was found dead in an area of woodlands known as Harrowdown Hill, about a mile from his home in Oxfordshire in July 2003, just days after he was exposed as the source of a BBC story about an allegedly "sexed up" dossier on the grounds for invading Iraq.
An inquiry conducted by Lord Hutton concluded that Dr Kelly had died as a result of a severed ulnar artery, caused by slashing his left wrist with a blunt knife he had since his youth.
However, the experts have argued that such an injury was unlikely to be life-threatening unless the person had a blood-clotting deficiency.
(KMcA/BMcC)
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