What happened in 2003 was a disgrace of this country and an affront to democracy. Norman Baker, lecture Alternative View 3 conference, ‘The Strange Death of David Kelly’
Saddam was not threatening his neighbours and his WMD capability was less than that of Libya, North Korea or Iran … The ministers had decided in July 2002 to go to war. ibid.
It was deliberately decided to leak Dr Kelly’s name. ibid.
On the Thursday – the last day of his life – he was sending emails to friends saying the worst was over and how he was looking forward to getting back to Iraq. ibid.
It was the most curious weapon to use if you were out to kill yourself. ibid.
There were no fingerprints recovered from the knife. ibid.
He was unable to cut steak with his right hand. ibid.
David Kelly had an aversion to swallowing tablets. ibid.
No fingerprints were recovered from the water bottle. ibid.
‘The features are quite typical I would say of self-inflicted injury if one ignores all the other features of the case.’ ibid. Dr Hunt, pathologist
We didn’t have a Coroner’s inquest … replaced by Lord Hutton. ibid.
There is the possibility at least that he was murdered by agents of a State. We don’t know which State it was. Rowena Thursby, The Kelly Investigation Group
I believe that David was probably a victim of Iraqi Intelligence Service because of long-standing enmity between Iraq and David ... A number of us were on an Iraqi hit-list. Richard Spertzel, UN Weapons Inspector in Iraq, colleague of David Kelly
There was no involvement by a third person in Dr Kelly’s death. Lord Hutton, delivering verdict of Inquiry
I was contacted within about twenty-four hours by someone who worked with David Kelly in the intelligence community and he said he’d been murdered. I wasn’t particularly surprised at that ... The plan is to leave Co-Proxamol by the side of the body ... The wrist-slash was clearly in my view designed not just to create the impression of suicide, it’s a perfect way of disguising the puncture wounds. Michael Shrimpton, National Security barrister
The scientist claimed that if Iraq was invaded, I will probably be found dead in the woods. A chilling prediction of what was to happen only four months later. Press TV: Death of Dr David Kelly
The doctors for whom I am acting are quite clear that there is sufficient doubt about how he could have died. Frances Swaine, solicitor for eight senior consultants
When Dr Kelly was identified as Gilligan’s source the Blair cabal found that it had put in the public spotlight ... a weapons inspector of unimpeachable competence and integrity who had sufficient knowledge and authority to destroy their entire case for war at a time when public feeling against the war was high. Christopher King
Lord Hutton drew conclusions that no sane person could have drawn. Greg Dyke
Tony Blair had already secretly committed Britain to war in 2002. The Death of Dr Kelly: An Open Case I
The Hutton Inquiry’s findings were widely regarded by experts as a whitewash and a government cover-up. ibid.
One or more third parties were present at the scene at Harrowdown Hill and moved the body. David Kelly: An Open Case II
Dr David Kelly: The damning new evidence that points to a cover-up by Tony Blair’s government. Online news article Miles Goslett and Stephen Frost 26 June 2010
Doctor David Kelly: A government scientist ... Dr Kelly was killed by the very people he was working for. Kennedy Killing: The CIA Conspiracy, Channel 5
On July 18th 2003 British biowarfare expert and UN weapons inspector Dr David Kelly was found dead on Harrowdown Hill near his home in Oxfordshire. Ruled a suicide by the official judicial inquiry chaired by Lord Hutton, now a group of British doctors is challenging the Attorney General’s decision not to hold a Coroner’s Inquest into the death. The Corbett Report, Dr David Kelly: The Battle for an Inquest, James Corbett online 2011
The cover-up into Dr Kelly’s death seemingly began before it even started. Operation Mason, the official police investigation into Dr Kelly’s death, started nine hours before his family even reported him missing.
A helicopter landed at the scene just nineteen minutes after the discovery of the body. ibid.
Those courageous whistleblowers who stepped forward with key information exposing what’s really happening in the corridors of power soon end up dead in an apparent suicide. The Corbett Report, Requiem for the Suicided: Dr David Kelly, James Corbett online May 2017
‘The last week of Dr Kelly’s life saw him at the centre of press attention, caught in the middle of the row between the government and the BBC over the dossiers on Iraq’s weapons’. ibid. BBC online article
There’s also a discrepancy between the official narrative of the way and the manner in which he committed suicide and the details as we know them and as they’ve been testified to by various sources. ibid.
His daughter was due to get married in a couple of months. ibid.
‘Mystery of the helicopter that landed at scene of Dr Kelly’s death after his body was found’. ibid. Mail online article 14th May 2011
The 20th anniversary of the death of David Kelly … Famed UN weapons inspector Dr David Kelly who was discovered dead on Harrowdown Hill near his home in Oxfordshire. The Corbett Report: Further Down the David Kelly Rabbit Hole, James Corbett online 2023
The supposed method of suicide … He had a known aversion to swallowing pills of any sort … No fingerprints found on the blister-pack of Co-Proxamol … Difficulty using his right hand for any strenuous activity … Not only the paramedic who arrived at the scene but the person who discovered his body testifying his body had changed position … Almost no blood at all found at the scene … ibid.
Dr David Kelly was the chief microbiologist at Porton Down. Porton Down! ibid.
Maybe had other information he was privy to that maybe he was about to go public. ibid.
David Kelly debriefed Vladimir Pasechnik [Soviet defector] … ‘What happened to him was perhaps a forerunner to Kelly.’ ibid. dissenter
His [Pasechnik] sudden death days after the Anthrax attacks in America. ibid.
Everyone smelt something very very funny with the David Kelly death. ibid.
Why kill him in that manner at that time? ibid.
We know that David Kelly was exploring shortly before his death, exploring with publishers in Oxford, the possibility of publishing a book, a tell-all essentially of his work. ibid.
On 18 July 2003 the body of a middle-aged man was found in woods near Harrowdown Hill in Oxfordshire. It was that of Dr David Kelly, one of Britain’s top scientists and a government spy … The theory that Dr Kelly was killed by the very people he was working for … Conspiracy s1e8: Assassinations, History 2019
Kelly was a deeply private self-contained and controlled person. Killing Kelly, Robert Lewis, 2021
My view is that something terrible happened to MI6 which caused it to betray its heritage as an organisation of integrity. ibid. Peter Oborne
His professional viewpoints were being ignored as well. He had been an inspector in Iraq. There had been no trace of chemical weapons. ibid. Annie Machon
A cut and paste job … Even my typographical errors … made it into the British Intelligence document. ibid. Ibrahim al-Marashi
David Kelly challenged US Intelligence that they’d found evidence of mobile biological laboratories in Iraq. ibid. George Galloway
The meeting [with journalist] would set a chain of events that would see a concerted campaign by the government to expose the identity of David Kelly. ibid. caption
Judy, I will wait until the end of the week before judging. Many dark actors playing games. ibid. Kelly’s email reply shortly before death
They [family] made the decision to call police just before midnight. Within fifteen minutes three officers arrived at the family home. This was not standard practice. ibid. Galloway
Blaire’s choice of Hutton seemed to imply a man that could do the bidding of the establishment. ibid.
No fingerprints found on any of the items … these included a knife he allegedly used to kill himself, a water bottle … some empty pill packets, a watch, a pair of glasses and a mobile phone, yet when his body was found he wore no gloves: this was not even mentioned at the Hutton Inquiry. ibid.
Did Dr Kelly die on Harrowdown Hill? Did he die of natural causes, or did he commit the worst act of suicide anyone ever saw, leaving not a single fingerprint on any of the means by which he was said to have committed suicide? George Galloway, MOATS #256: Suicided: Dr David Kelly’s Death and Cover-Up, Youtube 19.19, 2023
David Kelly was in possession of truths that were so explosive … he was suicided. ibid.