The search for Dr David KELLY

Three search teams were involved –

1. Helicopter Team – who did two searches
2. Ground humans, two + dog
3. TVP team – deployed only after David KELLY’S body had been found.

Team 3 was put into the field about an hour after David Kelly’s body was found.

In this Chapter I will describe how the search for David Kelly happened.

A Report

Sian Kelly reported David Kelly as overdue at 23:45. This despite the fact that he should have been home from a short walk by 16:00 at the latest, according to Jan & Rachael Kelly. Three officers from TVP’s Abingdon Station appeared promptly at midnight.

Sergeant Simon Morris led this group. He requested that TVP’s helicopter be sent up to search the immediate locality. They would use their very sensitive infra-red thermal heat detection camera to look for a person or body.

The TVP Helicopter Search Team

Opposite is the Eurocopter EC135 T2+ registration G-CPSH (abbreviated call sign Golf-Sierra-Hotel) that conducted the searches.

At the lower front is a dark pod. It’s a LEO-2 thermal-imaging camera made by FLIR Systems Inc. It was a state of the art camera system that was exquisitely sensitive to body heat. The camera can’t always see through damp tree leaves for example – but it will see through the gaps in a leaf canopy as the camera moves overhead.

The first search by G-CPSH was diverted from an exiting task and arrived over Southmoor at 02:20 – local, BST time.

The flight log records this as 03:20 – but all UK flights are logged in UTC/GMT time; this was summer time so local time was an hour ahead of UTC. G-CPSH searched for 00:45 before returning to RAF Benson to re-fuel.

The second search started at 03:35 and lasted 00:40.

The crew of G-CPSH would usually comprise a pilot, a camera operator and at least an observer officer or two.

Body not found

The search area was relatively small – a rectangle from Southmoor to the Thames, downstream to Newbridge and back to Kingston Bagpuize – see map, right. An area of barely 3 square miles – that included Harrowdown Hill. Given this, it is clear that a total flight time of 85 minutes would have enabled a very thorough search.

Much of this ground is open-fields that could have been scanned very rapidly. They would have seen rabbits, hares, deer, cattle, cats and dogs as a matter of routine. Finding a warm human body would be a very easy target – even under some sort of cover.

They would have concentrated their search on these areas of leaf canopy – trees, bracken, copses etc.

But - both Search Logs are listed as – “Confirmed Clear”.

G-CPSH made another flight later in the day – from RAF Benson to Harrowdown Hill to take aerial photographs and videos of the site. It was overhead for 00:20 and landed briefly for 00:05.

At the foot of that Flight Log is an intriguing note –

“Helitele tested with Abingdon silver suite as passing Abingdon. A/O.”

“Helitele” is a slang word for the LEO-2 camera – or any other helicopter born aerial camera. It is derived from a very early camera system called Marconi Heli-Tele. The abbreviation “A/O” reads as “All OK”.

G-CPSH did a very careful search of the area where David Kelly’s body was found evidence of a person or recently dead body.

They declared the area was - “Confirmed Clear”. 

Camera Check

In view of the fact that David Kelly’s body was found on Harrowdown Hill – the crew of G-CPSH ran a test on their FLIR LEO-2 camera later at Abingdon and found it was working perfectly – and logged it as “All OK”.

The obvious conclusion that has to be drawn is that David Kelly’s body wasn’t on Harrowdown Hill when G-CPSH searched the area – up to 04:15.

His body arrived there sometime after 04:15.

TVP’s Helicopter Search Team and the Hutton Inquiry

This search team was a complete master at the art of finding warm bodies from the air. They made two comprehensive searches of the area – including Harrowdown Hill and found no body.

They would have seen cats, dogs, foxes, badgers, rabbits, etc.

If there was a warm body they would have found it.

Despite their findings and expertise they were not wanted at the Hutton Inquiry – their findings would not “fit” with their projected account of events.

TVP’s “Operation Mason”

Once TVP had committed to take David Kelly’s overdue walk seriously – a specific project was set up. This was “Operation Mason”. The name “Mason” was simply taken off an alphabetical list of project names; a routine procedure.

Detective Chief Inspector Alan Young headed it. The operation was started with a retrospective time of 14:30 on Thursday the 17th; this was simply the time when David Kelly was, without doubt, last seen. It ended at 09:30 on the 18th – a total of 19 hours.

Two Police Forces and a Collision

As I said in Chapter 1, I believe David Kelly died 40 miles away – a fact known to some parts of TVP and other agencies. This part of TVP was now involved in a complex cover-up.

At Abingdon, however, TVP were treating David Kelly as a missing person and doing things by the book.

At some point, however, these two disparate operations would collide. Detective Chief Inspector Alan Young, Sergeant Simon Morris and their colleagues – functioning as regular TVP - would soon realise that some very irregular police activity was happening – that was quite outside of their control.

It is astonishing that DCI Alan Young who headed Operation Mason made no appearance at the Hutton Inquiry (HI); neither did Sergeant Simon Morris.

I said in Chapter 1 that I believed there were four classes of “witnesses” –

1. Those requested by Lord Hutton – who accepted his invitation
2. Those requested by Lord Hutton – who declined his invitation
3. Those requested by Lord Hutton - who declined his invitation – but were then pressurised to accept
4. Those not requested and not wanted by Lord Hutton – but who should have given evidence.

I suspect that DCI Alan Young and Sergeant Simon Morris were in class 2 – as were many others.

The Dog Search Team

Louise Holmes and Paul Chapman

The dog search team was, I believe, the fifth and last team to be deployed by TVP that night – as part of their cover-up.

It cannot be emphasised too much that this was, apart from the helicopter team, the one and only search team actually deployed by TVP.

TVP’s own search team was being assembled at Abingdon and arrived at Harrowdown Hill over an hour after David Kelly’s body was found.

The dog search team was, unlike the other four teams, a civilian resource recruited to help TVP.

Louise Holmes and Paul Chapman were awoken early that morning. They were members of the Berkshire Lowland Search and Rescue team (SEBEV).

In the search for David Kelly only one search team was actually put on the ground by TVP – this was it.

Search Path

David Kelly could easily have walked anywhere within, at the minimum, 25 square miles of his home.

But - this team was tasked with searching a single short footpath. It was three quarters of a mile long – and took them within yards of his body.

They were clearly set up to find his body.

In other words, someone in TVP knew where the body was.

The Searcher’s followed the red
path. The red chevron marks David
Kelly’s body. The blue arrow
shows the wind direction; lower
red star is Westfield.

The very expert helicopter team hadn’t found a body - up to 04:15 of that night.

TVP’s own search team, led by PC Jonathan Sawyer, was still at TVP’s Abingdon station when David Kelly’s body was found.

They were woken up at about 5am and agreed to take part in the search request in Oxfordshire – over 40 miles - well away from their base and outside of their normal area.

Louise drove them to Abingdon Police station – arriving at about 7:15/30am.

Here SEBEV’s Control Manager and TVP officers briefed them. They were given copies of local maps and a photo of David Kelly.

They were told to go to the end of Common Lane (=Tucks Lane) in Longworth (upper red star on map). Then to search the footpath to the River Thames. This was about three-quarters of a mile away.

The Search Task

The footpath ran right past the east-side of the copse on Harrowdown Hill.

They were bound to pass within yards of David Kelly’s body.

They started from South to North with a wind from behind them.

The hill is a “plug” of Lower Corallian Silt – a form of limestone – in an area of softer Oxford Clay – part of the archaic River Thames flood plain. It is one of several similar minor hills along the line of the Thames in this area. It is 325ft above sea level and some 60ft above adjacent fields. The top of the hill is covered in a copse of deciduous trees.

They walked the footpath and climbed up into the south part of the Copse. They explored the south side of the copse. They were held back from further exploration by a wire fence running west to east.

It is likely that they came within a few yards of David Kelly’s body in this search of the south part. But – the wind was blowing through the copse and away from them.

They then walked back down to the footpath and went on towards the River Thames (B on map). Here they found a boat moored up to the bank.

They chatted to the three or four people on the boat. The boat people said that they had heard the helicopter that night. But - they had no knowledge of the missing David Kelly. They also mention the sight of police officers in the field earlier on – see below.

Louise Holmes, Paul Chapman and Brock then turned around heading back south into a south-west breeze.

A body

As they walked south they would cross the breeze coming through and down from the Copse on Harrowdown Hill. At this point Brock, the search dog – right -should pick up the scent of David Kelly – and that is just what he did. He ran off into the copse. Louise Holmes followed into the copse and she saw a body slumped against the bottom of a tree.

She got to within a few feet of the body. She recognised it as that of Dr Kelly – from the photograph she had.

At the Inquiry she said –

• he was at the base of the tree with almost his head and his shoulders just slumped back against the tree
• his legs were straight in front of him
• his right arm was to the side of him 
• his left arm had a lot of blood on it and was bent back in a funny position 
• she had no doubt that he was dead

She also said - about Mr Chapman - that he was further back than she was. He stayed back to telephone Abingdon control.

Paul Chapman described the scene at the Inquiry –

• he was sitting with his back up against a tree and 
• there was an obvious injury to his left arm
• it was all covered in blood

Position of David Kelly’s Body

The position of David Kelly’s body became contentious. The searchers gave a clear account of one position.

Later, the paramedics and others gave a very different account.

Why did the body move; who moved it; why is it not explained?

Lord Brian Hutton, however, chooses to fudge and ignore the issues that arose.

The issue of the position of the body will be dealt with separately.

I believe that the change in the position of the body can now be explained.

And it is of immense importance.

Time of Finding Body

This critical matter seems clouded in mystery and isn’t even raised by Lord Brian Hutton. 09:20 is often given as the time the body was found.

However, modelling the search path described, starting at 08:00, I and other scientist colleagues, estimate that 08:45 is a more probable time.

In fact Paul Chapman’s first statement to a TVP officer that morning (shown in the Hutton Inquiry Publication) is timed at 09:15 – so 09:20 is clearly wrong.

Reporting the find of David Kelly’s body

Once Brock and Louise Holmes had found David Kelly’s body, Paul Chapman stepped back clear of the copse and telephoned Abingdon control; but he couldn’t get a reply. He rang 999, explained the situation, asked that they contact Abingdon and ask that they be called. This took a few minutes. Abingdon police station rang him and he reported their find.

They then walked back to Louise’s car – getting there at about 09:00.

The paramedics told me that Louise Holmes was very upset at finding a body while Paul Chapman was deliriously elated.

Out of the Blue – Three TVP Officers

To their surprise, a little later, at about 08:55, they met three Criminal Investigation Department (CID) police officers walking towards them.

Both the searchers state, without doubt, that there were three officers.

One was DC Coe (Graham Coe), another DC Shields (Colin Shields) and a “third man”; this third man’s identity has never been convincingly explained; despite Michael Page’s explanation at the HI.

A local resident of Tucks Lane, Longworth, observed this meeting. He had taken his dog for a walk at about 08:30. Sometime later, he saw the meeting of the two searchers and their dog with the three policemen; he also saw one car (that of Louise Holmes). He assumed that the three policemen must have arrived on foot.

His wife joined him at this time.

Much later on they saw a “hoard” of TVP officers arrive on site. Some were then tasked to perform a finger–tip search of the pathways and road.

Subsequently both he and his wife gave detailed statements to TVP. Neither of these is recorded in the Account of Evidence submitted to the Inquiry by Thames Valley Police –

https://tinyurl.com/yaeb3pxw

Yet these were local residents who had seen significant events unfold.

Just how many similar undeclared statements there are isn’t known.

DC Coe and colleagues

DC Coe was instructed to –

“Go and make house to house inquiries in the area where Dr Kelly lived.”

His first, and only, house to house visit was to a house opposite the Kelly’s home. Here he met Mrs Ruth Absalom a solitary widow. She said she had met David Kelly on a walk the day before. DC Coe duly recorded this.

He should have then moved on to other neighbours to collect as much information as he could.

However, he didn’t do any further inquiries, but instead went to “the area where Mrs Absalom met David Kelly”.

This seems a dereliction of duties – going off-task to pursue his own objective.

He led the TVP trio to the site of Mrs Absalom’s meeting. Then they then walked through Longworth village and down Tuck’s Lane to the open fields and, in the near distance, Harrowdown Hill. Yet at the HI, Mrs Absalom gave the impression that David Kelly had walked away from Harrowdown Hill. This walk would have taken about half an hour – assuming they were on foot.

As soon as they arrived at the end of Tuck’s Lane they saw Louise Holmes’ car, the two searchers and their dog in the field. They introduced themselves to the searchers.

The searchers explained their find of a body. Paul Chapman led DC Coe to the copse on Harrowdown Hill and showed him David Kelly’s body. My estimate is that DC Coe saw the body at about 09:05. Paul Chapman took the lead at this time because Louise Holmes was very upset at her find.

At this time DC Coe was de facto in charge of the crime scene until the TVP search party, being assembled at Abingdon, arrived.

A Silent Hour

DC Graham Coe was in charge of David Kelly’s body and the crime scene for about an hour from 09:00. Yet, we know nothing about any events in this hour. The TVP trio had arrived on foot and had no significant equipment with them.

Why they arrived at Harrowdown Hill hasn’t been explained; nor has the presence of the “third officer”.

We do know that David Kelly’s body was slumped against a tree trunk at 08:45 – as clearly described by the searchers.

When the paramedics arrived at 09:50 his body was flat on its back and 18″ clear of the tree trunk.

DC Coe can offer no explanation for this save for saying that the body was always flat on its back.

In this Silent Hour two crucial events occurred – of which nothing has been previously said.

It will take two chapters to explain these profoundly important events.

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What to do with David Kelly’s body

A desperate state

The Managers & Civil Servants (M&CS) were now in a desperate state.

They had managed to get in touch with a senior Manager on the night shift at the Home Office. This was late in the evening of the 17th July.

This Manager could handle most things. He could delegate it downwards or delegate it upwards – even to the Prime Minister’s Office - if that’s what he felt was needed.

Soon Lord Charles Falconer must have been woken up.

For the past six weeks, he was both Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs. This put him in a unique and immensely powerful position. This, together with his close friendship with Prime Minister Tony Blair, made him the most powerful government executive in the land.

Tony Blair, a great personal friend of Falconer, was out of the country.

Actually in the air - flying from Washington to Tokyo.

Tony Blair was woken and told the news of David Kelly’s death at 09:30 – British Summer Time – by Falconer although the body had not yet been formally identified.

Later, a little after midday, Falconer and Blair had a further two telephone calls. By then, with extraordinary speed, Falconer had appointed Lord Hutton to lead an Inquiry.

That night, a Command & Control (C&C) centre had been formed to manage the logistics of an enormously important situation.  I call it a C&C – but it may have had some other name.

The potential political outcomes of this event were massive – especially for the Blair Government and its role in the Iraq War of 2003.

No effort would be spared to contain any political liability that might threaten the Blair Government. Huge controversies swirled around these events - especially in the UK.

If there was one member of the Government who could “fix” things that night, it was Lord Charles Falconer.

C&C called up all sorts of experts – some very old, some young, some on their phones, some at home, some called into the Home Office to sort out this appalling mess.

This was a major “flap”.

The Options in Reading

• DR David KELLY was dead – fact.
• He had died in the course of an urgent Government meeting.

The M&CS at Reading and C&C had options – none very palatable.

1. Call TVP to place of death, explain, and confess.
2. Take body back to the Royal Berkshire Hospital and explain.
   
   None of the M&CS wanted to do this.
   
   They felt profoundly guilty.
   
   David Kelly had walked into a room with them.
   
   Now he was dead.
   
   They hadn’t treated him very well and now he was dead.
   
   Intellectually, whatever the legal position, they felt that they had killed him.
   
   They felt that they had murder on their hands.
   
   They didn’t want to risk facing a murder or manslaughter charge.
   
   They were massively shocked and traumatised by the events.
3. Dump his body somewhere – such as the River Thames or even at sea.
4. Dump the body in a way to suggest suicide.
   
   For Example. Hang the body from a tree. Put the body into the Thames near his home. Put his body somewhere and make it look like suicide.
5. Destroy the body, for example –
   
   Bury it deeply somewhere remote – maybe a building site.
   
   Destroy the body – with chemicals or by fire, maybe a car crash.

Parallel Plans

Time was precious and many ideas and plans were being run in parallel.

Several plans were activated simultaneously – it would be sunrise in about four hours.

One only of these plans would be chosen and put into action.

This is what I think probably happened.

A Plan - Destroy David Kelly’s body

This latter option was considered seriously. One of the older experts said they must get his dental records out of the way.

This would make identification of any remains difficult, although some DNA evidence might survive some methods of disposal – but not all.

Without any delay, a crack team of experts was pulled together and set running.

This was the Dental Team – the first of five teams sent out that night. Unlike the other teams they would continue work until early Sunday morning.

They were sent on their way with instructions to follow.

There is no doubt that the dental records were stolen.

Final Chosen Plan – the Suicide Scenario

After a lot of data gathering and analysis it looked as though the best option was to dump his body near to his home and make it look like suicide.

They made a massive online search of the locality. Every conceivable map, photograph and aerial photograph was looked at to find some sites that looked promising.

Hanging the body from a tree was an obvious thought. But the forensic guys said that wouldn’t be very convincing at a post mortem.

Simultaneously, C&C’s search of the NHS record system showed that, although David Kelly wasn’t taking any drugs, his wife was. She was taking, amongst others, coproxamol tablets – pain relieving tablets.

Coproxamol tablets were often involved in suicides.

Four More Teams

The Dental Team had been despatched.

C&C put together four more teams -

• The Reconnaissance Team – this team would go to the selected dump sites as fast as possible. Once on the ground they would chose the best option for placing David Kelly’s body.
  
  After a ground search of the suggested sites they chose the small copse atop a small hill – Harrowdown Hill. They then waited for the Body team to arrive. They were careful to keep their car parked out of sight – as far as was possible.
  
• The Drug Team + Dog – this team arrived at Westfield, the Kelly’s home, at 04:40. Ostensibly, to search the house in case David Kelly was there.
  

  

  A blister pack of 10
  co-proxamol tablets

  
  Mrs Kelly, wearing just her dressing-gown was put out into her garden while this was done. It gave the team a chance to search the house, in total privacy, and collect three packets, 30 tablets, from Mrs Kelly’s two stores of co-proxamol tablets; one at her bed-side and one in her kitchen.
  
  This team would then link up with the Body Team and hand over the tablets.
  
  
  
• The Body Team – went to the Reading meeting place and collected David Kelly’s body – in the back of a car. Once in Longworth, the Reconnaissance Team would guide them to their destination. The Reconnaissance Team had decided to put David Kelly’s body in a small copse just off a footpath.
  
  The footpath ran from Tucks Lane, Longworth to the River Thames. The copse was atop small hillock – Harrowdown Hill.
  
  This Body Team had the task of getting David Kelly’s body to Harrowdown Hill – and placing it slumped against a tree trunk.
  
  Then, as described in Chapter 4 – “The Cut Wrist” – Officer-X made the incisions described. He also placed his watch, water bottle and cleaned knife on the left side of David Kelly’s body.
  
  The packs of co-proximal tablets were emptied with the exception of one tablet. The empty packs were put in one of David Kelly’s jacket pockets.
• The Volunteer Searchers + Dog – the first four teams were TVP officers plus special staff as needed.
  
  The Volunteer Searchers were from the Berkshire Lowland Search and Rescue service. Although civilian volunteers they were effectively being used by and managed by TVP on this occasion. Although they didn’t know it, they were an integral part of the cover-up of David Kelly’s death. Their activities are described in another Chapter and, in part, below.

Confusion

At the same time TVP was also doing its routine tasks of assembling search teams etc.

Some TVP officers, unaware of the true facts, were running a by-the-book investigation of a missing person. This was Operation Mason headed by Chief Inspector Alan Young. Sergeant Morris’s instructions for a night-time helicopter search were by-the-book. This team couldn’t find a body – where later there was one.

There was a total silence of this first search effort at the Hutton Inquiry.

No one from this team - helicopter pilot, observer, camera operator - appeared at the Inquiry. Neither Sergeant Morris nor Inspector Alan Young were at the Hutton Inquiry. I think that this was because their accounts were “inconvenient” – or they declined to appear at the Inquiry.

Significant logistical problems were arising.

Other TVP officers were running a cover-up operation – led by C&C – often at odds with the naïve staff.

Sometimes, one of TVP’s hands didn’t always know what the other hand was doing or planning.

Extra notes

The Dental Team

See Chapter 3 “A Visit to the Dentist”.

There can be no doubt that these events happened – a form of the events was given at the Hutton Inquiry; more details were given in 2011.

The reason for needing to get David Kelly’s Dental Records was that these provided one of the best methods of identifying a body – apart from fingerprints or DNA analysis.

The “Dental Team” would have arrived on the early morning of the 18th July. Below is my guess at the events that happened - based on the facts that I know.

C&C had pulled together a team of two great experts in “building penetration and recovery” – generally known as burglars. They had many other skills – not required this night.

They were on their way West from London even before they knew where they were going. They were aware that some massive “flap” was on and just did as they were told.

Then they received their exact destination – the Ock Street Clinic, 45 Ock Street, Abingdon, OX14 5AG.

They arrived at about 03:30 am and parked their car across the road a short way from the Clinic. The passenger got out and strolled down the pavement, across the road from the Clinic – looking for evidence of burglar alarms etc. There didn’t seem to be any security systems.

He then crossed the road and walked back past it – looking at the front door to see what sort of locks it had. There was one - of a type that was easy to open.

Then he was in luck because he could walk into a lane – and into Fitchett Yard. This took him to the back of the Clinic.

Here was just a simple garden fence, about 5 feet tall, around the back of the Clinic. He looked around for signs of life and CCTV cameras. It looked quite safe – he legged it over the fence and hit the ground.

He got up and explored the rough ground at the back and sides of the Clinic. On
the East Side he was completely hidden from view. Here was a door and window.

The Ock Street Clinic is based in the
ground floor of the buildings seen here.

He opened his tool kit and tried to open the window – but, although it was quite old, he couldn’t open it without risk of breaking the glass. He looked at the door. This had a simple mortice lock that after a couple of minutes he had opened. Very gently, he pushed the door open with his gloved hands. Wow – no alarms went off.

Then he found his way to the front door and unlocked it from the inside. He then spoke to his colleagues – outside in their car – via a radio link.

By then there was now some debate in C&C if it was necessary to steal David Kelly’s Dental Records. Events were moving very quickly and it was a bit difficult to keep track of things.

The Dental Team said that they were already in the surgery and were ready to recover the dental records. After a short while the Dental Team was told to complete their task. C&C thought that his would be one record amongst 10,000 or so records and would be unlikely to be noticed.

The Clinic was a bit of a rabbit warren with Dr Kanas’s surgery at the farthest end of the building. Here was her filing cabinet and David Kelly’s record.

The Dental Team locked the Clinic and left Abingdon.

The Body Team

David Kelly’s body had to be taken from the Reading meeting place to Harrowdown Hill – quickly – a journey of 40 miles.

A careful review of the post mortem records a number of minor traumas to the body; I counted ten in total. A striking feature was that all ten of these were either in the midline or left-hand side of the body; there were no such lesions on the right-hand side.

These are consistent with a body being placed on its left-hand side – and acquiring some minor traumas in the process.

I suspect that David Kelly’s body may have been put into the boot of a car – as shown in the photograph below.

A body carried in such a manner for 40 miles would have certainly been bumped around en-route. A dead body will not bruise; that needs an active blood supply. Nevertheless, a freshly dead body will bear marks of minor traumas – as were described on David Kelly’s body.

Such a means of moving his body was quick and convenient – and I imagine that this is how it was done.

Sighting of a Police Officer near Harrowdown Hill

The only searchers put on the ground were Paul Chapman and Louise Holmes with her dog Brock. They had been asked by TVP to search one short footpath from the edge of Longworth (A) to the Thames (B).

The path taken by the
searchers. They met the boat
people at “B” at the Thames.

David Kelly’s body was in the north-eastern part of the copse.

They started their search from “A” at 08:00.

Having searched the southern part of the copse on Harrowdown Hill they then walked to the river. The path ends at the Thames where they found a moored boat.

At the Hutton Inquiry, James Dingemans QC asked Paul Chapman about this part of their search:

Q. Did you see anyone on that search?
A. Not until we reached the river and we met the people on the boat.

Q. How many people were on the boat?
A. Either three or four, I cannot remember.

Q. Did you speak to them?
A. Yes, we did.

Q. What did you say to them?
A. They enquired what we were doing. We explained a search team assisting the police, looking for a missing person, and gave them a rough description of his age and said if they saw anything could they contact the police.

Q. Had they seen anything?
A. They had heard the helicopter and seen some police officers at some point previously.

Q. Right. What, police officers on an earlier part of the search?
A. Yes.

As is typical of the behaviour of the Hutton lawyers, this key bit of evidence was studiously ignored. The QC’s questioning was deftly turned elsewhere.

Police Officers at Harrowdown Hill – thus Paul Chapman clearly reported the observations of the people on the Thames boat that they had seen Police Officers. From the position of the boat and the local topography, it must have been that they saw Police Officers were in the fields to the East of the copse.

This is consistent with my proposal that a Reconnaissance Team or Body Team would have been in the area at some time early that morning.

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A Short Walk, a Drive and a Meeting

Preface

This Chapter continues on from Chapter 5 – “Events at the Kelly Home”.

I need to explain some points:

• In that Chapter, I portrayed David Kelly leaving for a meeting. Because his driver was early, he was picked up in Appleton Road, Longworth a little after meeting his neighbour Ruth Absalom.
• The fact that the Kelly family didn’t report him as “missing” until 23:45 is consistent with the fact that they knew he was away and wouldn’t be home till late.
• We know that there were many issues that need to be dealt with urgently – thus the meeting was held at short notice on the evening of the 17th July.

• We know from the post mortem that the only natural pathology present in David Kelly’s body was severe coronary artery disease.

All his coronary arteries were 70% blocked by atheroma. Part of the Right Coronary Artery was almost completely blocked. Near its end, the Left Coronary Artery appears to have been completely blocked at some prior time.

This degree of disease put him at a very high risk of sudden death from some form of heart attack.

• We know that he died that evening/night.
• We have a very clear account from a Hospital Consultant who reported that David Kelly was brought to the Accident and Emergency Department of the West Berkshire Hospital in Reading, Berkshire. By then he was dead – see below.
• We have evidence for the use of an oxygen mask and a defibrillator. Also evidence that he coughed up blood stained froth.
• We know his body was found later on Harrowdown Hill, Longworth, Oxfordshire.
• This – despite a detailed helicopter search that night of the area that failed to reveal any sign of a recently dead body

I have put all these matters into a coherent account below.

Back home to Southmoor

David Kelly was back at his home on Thursday the 17th of July 2003.

His preceding week was unusual. He had “fled”, with his wife, on government advice, from his home to a cottage in Portmellon just above Mevagissey. This had been arranged with Jan Kelly’s friend Pamela Dabbs of nearby Goran Haven.

On the Sunday he returned to Oxford – staying with his daughter Rachel.

On Tuesday the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee had questioned him – with highly disrespectful remarks from Andrew MacKinlay – televised.

On Wednesday he went to London to attend the House of Commons Intelligence and Security Committee

He spent Thursday morning in his study. He was busy with messages. As well as emails coming and going, he had a business landline, a home landline and his mobile telephone.

He was very reliant on his mobile telephone. He had grown used to it as a very dependable way of keeping in touch wherever he was in the world.

At 11am he broke from work for a cup of coffee with Mrs Kelly.

As the morning passed it was obvious to him that he had to meet a number of his civil servant bosses. Many people were asking many questions. About which journalists had he met and what had he said. There were also emerging “Prime Minster Questions” (PMQs) –all of these needed answering.

He finally agreed to go to a meeting with his managers and other civil servants (M&CS). This was urgent and had to be that evening - the evening of the 17th July. He had a gut feeling that this could be a “difficult” meeting.

He had a lunch of sandwiches with Mrs Kelly at about 1pm.

For whatever reason he decided not to drive himself but asked for a driver to pick him up from home. The driver was due to call at about 3.30pm. David Kelly wanted to leave later but they couldn’t get him a driver much later than 3:30pm.

A Short Walk

He decided to get some fresh air and go for a short walk just before 3.00pm. He crossed the road and went up Wagon Place – a lane that quickly passed into open fields. Then up and onto a footbridge over A420 - the village by-pass.

Coming down off the bridge he was in Harris’s Lane which ended where it met Appleton Road on the edge of Longworth village.

At this junction he met his neighbour, from across the road, Ruth Absalom. She was out with her dog Buster. She describes the meeting, by telephone, to the Hutton Inquiry -

Q. MR James DINGEMANS QC - What did you say to him?

A - He said, "Hello Ruth" and I said, "Oh hello David, how are things?" He said,  "Not too bad". We stood there for a few minutes then Buster, my dog, was pulling on the lead, he wanted to get going. I said, "I will have to go, David". He aid, "See you again then, Ruth" and that was it, we parted.

Q - How did he seem to you?

A - Just his normal self, no different to any other time when I have met him.

Q - And did you see what direction he left in?

A - Well, he was going for his walk. I suppose he went to my right, along the road towards Kingston Bagpuize

This description of David Kelly’s departure fits with David Kelly walking East along Appleton Road.

This is away from Harrowdown Hill.

Driven to a Meeting

Back at the Kelly home the driver had arrived early to collect David Kelly. He had been given this job at short notice and was short of time. After some prevarication Mrs Kelly telephoned David to tell him his driver had arrived. David was a bit fed up at this hiccup and told his wife to send the driver around the village to Appleton Road where he would meet him.

A few minutes later the driver met David Kelly. The car turned around and headed off to the meeting. This was about an hour’s drive away. En route David Kelly remembered that he had left his wallet on the dining room table. He had intended to pick it up when he returned from his walk. Not a concern - he hadn’t expected to be spending any money.

The Final Meeting

The meeting was slow to start. Various people had been delayed in London and elsewhere so it was gone 7pm when everyone was there. David Kelly’s suspicion that this could be a difficult meeting was soon confirmed.

The meeting was in government offices in Reading – possibly in or near Coley Park.

People he knew only very casually were asking lots of questions about his media connections. He didn’t feel he was being given the respect he deserved as a senior civil servant and a pre-eminent scientist in his field.

But David Kelly’s exact position in the government hierarchy was quite unusual. He wasn’t a manager – in charge of a team of civil servants.

He was more a lone-wolf expert scientist – but a very senior one. So expert that he worked for the Ministry of Defence (MOD) – his original employee – and others. These included the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, the United Nations Special Commission and the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission.

At the meeting the questioning moved on to the PMQs that had been tabled. The (M&CS) wanted detail by detail of these. David Kelly could deal with all of these but they did upset him as – yet again – this very private man was being put into the glare of public discussion.

David Kelly was also hungry and had drunk more than enough coffee for one evening. He thought of getting some food when the meeting was over – but then realised he had no money to buy anything.

The M&CS then took an unexpected tack. They raised the question about Civil Service Code and his meetings with the Media. They put it to David Kelly that he may have breached the Code in his dealings with journalists. This was debatable. David Kelly had met and talked to many journalists over many years. He had been trained on how to manage these meetings.

Nevertheless this meeting was beginning to stress David Kelly.

He was used to working in very hostile, dangerous and difficult conditions. From darkest Russia to insane Iraq but he was always calm and composed.

Now, however, he was tired, hungry, and had drunk too much coffee. He began to realise that he was not quite right. He wasn’t feeling quite right.

Then M&CS then took another unexpected tack. One of the M&CS who had said little so far was asked to add to the matter possible breaches of the Civil Service Code. He explained that if this was proven, both David Kelly’s job position and pension could be at risk.

The Last Straw

For David Kelly this was the last straw.

He had spent 30 years at the forefront of his field – helping to protect his country – and the Western world. Working all hours imaginable without complaint.

Now he was being threatened with being placed penniless in a government waste bin.

This was too much and David Kelly lost his temper – a very rare event. As he spoke his mind about these absurd innuendoes he began to feel hot, sweaty and faint. He had to sit down to get his breath – and stopped his outburst. His chest felt very tight and he simply wanted to sit and rest.

The M&CS suddenly realised that they had gone too far, too fast. What the hell could they do? David Kelly wasn’t looking at all well.

No one knew that David Kelly’s heart was badly affected by severe arterial disease. It had been hanging on by a thread of an artery.

David Kelly is unwell

Someone then remembered that there was usually a First-Aider in the building. They telephoned him and demanded that he come in. This he did.

He wasn’t at all sure what was going on in this room or what was wrong with David Kelly. Now David Kelly was feeling very faint and felt very short of breath. The First-Aider fetched an oxygen cylinder. He placed an oxygen mask over David Kelly’s nose and mouth and turned on the oxygen flow to 4 litres per minute. David Kelly now lying flat with some cushions beneath his head. This seemed to help - David Kelly was a bit calmer and more relaxed.

Oxygen mask on David Kelly

The First-Aider wanted to call an ambulance and get David Kelly to a hospital.

The M&CS were totally against this. They were in a massive turmoil. If they took him to hospital there would be an enormous eruption of a fuss of how did David Kelly end up in the state he was in?

From their perspective, David Kelly was fit and well when their meeting started. Now he was looking very unwell. They had no doubt that they had caused his present state – they were responsible for it. In their eyes they were 100% responsible for the situation.

They decided to sit tight and hope the First-Aider would be able to get David Kelly well again.

In not taking David Kelly to a hospital they crossed a moral, ethical and professional Rubicon that was to have far reaching effects.

David Kelly gets worse

The oxygen seemed to have helped David Kelly. But he was far from well. He was short of breath and coughed to little avail. Occasionally he would cough up some pink froth – spattered onto the inside of his oxygen mask.

He asked to be taken to hospital – just as the First Aider had asked. The M&CS said that they had called a MOD doctor who was on his way.

There was no sign of their doctor and David Kelly became increasingly breathless and tired. Suddenly he got worse very quickly and then became unconscious.

The M&CS were already in disarray as what to do. Their MOD men wanted to get him to a hospital – but the others didn’t. The media and political mayhem that would emerge if he were taken into a hospital was too much for them.

Clearly - They were not acting in David Kelly’s best interests. They were acting in their best interests.

David Kelly dies

Suddenly David Kelly dies – as best as the M&CS can judge.

The First Aider runs to get a new piece of kit he had just got. He comes back with a box of electronics - an Automatic Electrical Defibrillator (AED).

Attempted defibrillation of David Kelly’s heart

He gets one of the M&CS to start pumping his chest. He paces two big sticky pads on David Kelly’s chest. He asked the M&CS to stand back before hitting the “defibrillate” button. He does this until he and the machine are exhausted.

Then there’s a profound silence before a debate blows open. They feel that, as David Kelly had walked into their room fit and well, they had killed him.

Would they face a murder charge or maybe a manslaughter charge. They were in an appalling situation – but not as bad as David Kelly’s.

But was he dead? They couldn’t be sure. After much discussion they tidied up his clothes and called an ambulance.

The top M&CS went with him to the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading.

The paramedics bought David Kelley into the Accident & Emergency Unit (A&E). Routinely they helped the A&E nurses and undid David Kelly’s shirt to find some sticky pads already on his chest!

Not sure what these were they whipped off. Then they put on four sticky ECG electrodes and switched on the ECG machine. There was just a straight line – he was obviously dead. The nurses tried to get a blood pressure – no luck. His pupils were wide open and didn’t close with a bright light. They were “fixed and dilated” – a terminal event.

The top M&CS told the hospital staff, while showing his top level security pass, that this was a matter of National Security, cleared by the Home Office, and David Kelly’s body had to be returned to them, as a matter of National Security.

What on earth do they do with his body?

David Kelly was now back at the meeting place. What on earth do they do with his body?

Some said, “let’s take it back” to the hospital and let them deal with the matters. This would almost certainly involve a Police investigation – and they didn’t really want that.

Others said let’s call the Police now – and own up.

Other ideas were suggested but all seemed too impracticable.

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Dr David Kelly and Paedophilia

It is hard to imagine how David Kelly and paedophilia have any common ground.

But – bizarrely there are common grounds – in fact – it arises in respect of three matters.

• In an Email sent by Robert Miles to Thames Valley Police (TVP) on the 31 July 2003 – 13 days after David Kelly’s body was found.
• In respect of David Kelly and the remaining Kelly Family – a possible connection.
• In respect of a third matter – that my lawyers will not allow me to publish in full.

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• At a very late date I have added a fourth part to this Chapter.
  
  It describes an account of an extraordinary event that occurred just as I completed writing this chapter.
  
  It was totally unforeseen, it was exceptionally rare – and raises yet more questions about David Kelly’s death.
  

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An Email

Norman Baker PC

The first reference to the matter is made in Norman Baker’s seminal book on the death of David Kelly.

Mr Baker refers to a document listed as – “Emails from Catrina Bidmead” - TVP/3/0287–0288.

This is on page 219 of his book.

That document can be found here –

http://tinyurl.com/zztrgmh

This is an archived list of evidential documents collected by TVP for consideration by the Hutton Inquiry; this email is almost half-way down the list.

There are 265 documents of which 65 are cleared for public release while 200 remain covert.

Many of these documents were not considered by the Hutton Inquiry – such as this “Catrina Bidmead” one – or, as another example, this one – TVP/7/0008 - 0011.

This was a statement by Pamela Dabbs – a friend of Jan Kelly. There are a total of three statements relating to the Dabbs family in this listing – none considered by the Hutton Inquiry; although the Dabbs were the last of family friends to see David and Jan Kelly before David Kelly’s death. Mrs Kelly telephoned John Dabbs at 06:30 on the 18th July – to see if, by some chance, David had returned to Mevagissey. Furthermore, Mr Dabbs had made a promise to David Kelly to keep secret something David Kelly had told him. What that matter was is not known.

This Bidmead email is best described as a document written by a lunatic or in such a style.

TVP would have received many such communications in the course of their investigation. As far as I am aware this is the only such communication filed in the Hutton/TVP Archive.

Why was it archived? I don’t know and can’t guess why.

Who cleared material for this listing isn’t known – and it’s questionable if Lord Hutton was aware that this record was in the archives.

I know that this is not a complete list. I have spoken to many people, significant people, who made statements to TVP who do not appear in this list

I imagine that TVP’s ACC Michael Page was the executive editor of this archive.



Email from Catrina Bidmead TVP/3/0287–0288

Above is a copy of the redacted email – as released by TVP.

I will try to explain its structure.

It is an email that has been sent once and then forwarded twice.

• In the beginning it was sent by “Robert Miles” – status redacted - to an unknown recipient- name redacted - on the 31st July 2003 at 10:04. Many others were sent copies of the email; their names are redacted. My estimate is that it was copied to about seven other recipients.
  
  Thus “Robert Miles” originally sent it to eight recipients. His name is not redacted; at that date there were about 330 “Robert Miles” on the UK Electoral Register.
  
  The Subject heading of the email was –
  
  British Government Arms Specialist Doctor David Kelly Was Genuinely Murdered, On Friday 18th July 2003 At Harrowdown Hill, West London, England, Europe

Note – Harrowdown Hill is 8 miles Southwest of Oxford and 60 miles West of London.

• It was then forwarded, probably by Richard Everett, Internet Officer at TVP, to Paul Anthem of TVP some 16 minutes later at 10:20.
• It was received by Catrina Bidmead of Operation Mason about two hours later, at about 12:35.
  
  Operation Mason’s primary task was finding David Kelly’s body. It was lead by Inspector Alan Young – who – very surprisingly made no appearance in Lord Hutton’s Inquiry.
  
  Catrina Bidmead was an employee of TVP – quite possibly – a civilian employee based at TVP’s Abingdon Station.
  
  I will describe the document in a series of Examinations.

Examination 1

Content of email. It talks of –

Doctor David Kelly
murdered
fake British Government Ministers
Federal Bureau Of Investigation in China
the 12th World's worst murderer
The World's Worst Paedophile Ring

In brief – a series of seemingly outlandish issues.

Examination 2

David Kelly is always referred to as “Doctor David Kelly” – a very unusual convention compared to the usual “Dr David Kelly”.

Examination 3

The body text of the email runs to about 185 words.

Approximately 15 of these words are redacted.

I continue to be surprised that –

• Such a document has been subject to redaction
• And the redacted document has been archived for public inspection – despite never having featured in the Hutton Inquiry.

Redacted text can sometimes be read.

Ideally, one needs the original redacted document. There are then a variety of computerised and optical methods for looking at the text; either from the face or the back of the document.

Chemical solvents can also reveal detail – but is more invasive or destructive.

However, if the original text is not available – but say a black and white laser print or photocopy only – then it may be difficult or impossible to resolve the redaction.

Examination 4

Another bizarre issue is the author’s use of bold type fonts.

The majority of the words have one or more characters set in “bold” font – as in line one –

"On Friday 18th July 2003 at"

The distribution of the bold is seemingly random – but it may not be.

Examination 5

Yet another bizarre issue is the author’s use of multiple type fonts within words -

In this example – “Federal Bureau” – there are –

• Several font sizes in use
• Three different font forms of the letter “e”
• and a very unusual variation in the use of the lower case character of “A”.
  
  In computer text this is commonly written as “a” – a so-called “double storey “A”.
  
  In contrast, handwriting usually uses a single storey “A” – like so – “a”.
  
  A single storey letter “A” is very unusual in computer text. In the example here I have used the “Monaco” font to show that form of “A”.
  
  In the above example the author uses both double-storey and single storey “A” in the adjacent words.

In summary – the author has gone to enormous trouble to write words –

• in fonts of different sizes
• in different fonts
• and some in bold font setting

I have discussed this with computer professionals and am advised that there is no conventional software that could execute such a form of writing.

Thus, it must have been done manually – a very tedious process – or done by some highly specialised form of text software.

Examination 6

A scan of the text by simple cryptographic analysis software shows recurring strings of characters. For example – if we look at the characters in bold, then the five character sequences

r’rap and hr’ra

recur five times each.

This seemed to be more than random – and it suggested the possibility of a code within the text. Furthermore, the apparently contrived construction of some sentences also suggests the possibility of a code. For example –

Examination 7

I took the document to an expert in cryptography. He was an expert in the theory of cryptography and not a practising cryptographic analyst. He saw that the recurring strings of characters arose from recurring Copying and Pasting (C&P) text within the document.

For example, the phrase –

containing the substring of bold characters –

hr’ra

recurs four times – in exactly the same form. Thus, the author typed it out once and then C&P the text three times. This was simply a matter of convenience.

He also agreed that there could be a coded message within the text – on the basis of many odd features. Solving this was made difficult because of the limited amount of text and the redactions.

He thought that the best option was to ask GCHQ – he could help me with contacts. I said I was hesitant to do this since they couldn’t be eliminated as the source of the email.

If it did contain code it is likely that TVP would have solved it and would then have been unlikely to release it – unless the reactions were designed to obstruct solving any code.

But – why release it anyway?

Finally – with a typically cryptic flourish Robert Miles signs off -

If there was more to follow, we haven’t had sight of it.

I decided enough was enough and closed my file on this document.

Maybe it is a red herring.

If any reader can resolve any message in this document I would appreciate being told.

Kelly Family - Paedophilia

David Kelly’s grave has been left in a state of neglect.

There’s no evidence that any of his family attend the grave and leave flowers etc.

Any visitor to the graveyard could instantly identify David Kelly’s grave by its desolation – as compared to the other surrounding graves.

David Kelly’s neglected grave

These are well looked after and are adorned with simple artefacts as memorabilia.

I pointed this out in Chapter One of this blog.

Why should this be so?

In Chapter Five I thought that Mrs Kelly and her immediate family may have come under pressure to give a false account of events to the Hutton Inquiry.

I wondered if they could have been pressurised on two fronts –

• The vulnerability of David Kelly’s Civil Service pension – with assertions that he may have breached Civil Service Rules on media contacts. As a result, the certainty of his pension was in question.
• The Kelly family was told something very toxic about David Kelly – so toxic that they seemed to have disowned him after his death.
  
  And - so toxic that they wouldn’t want a public hearing of such matters – in other words a Coroner’s Inquest.
I assume that such a matter was a complete fabrication designed to gain the compliance of the Kelly family.

But – what could this matter have been – to have had such a profound effect?

Mr Gerrard Jonas and a group - Justice for Kelly

The neglect of David Kelly’s grave did not go unnoticed.

Remember - David Kelly’s status was so great that he was said to have been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize. Such nominations are, however, confidential for 50 years and can’t be verified at the present. The UK Government was also considering him for a Knighthood.

Mr Gerrard Jonas, a resident of Fernham, in The Vale of the White Horse, Oxfordshire, noticed this state of neglect with concern.

Gerrard Jonas was one of many patriotic people who turned out to line the roadside when deceased British soldiers were repatriated, from Afghanistan or Iraq, to the UK. At that time their bodies were flown into RAF Lyneham, south-west of Swindon, and then taken by road – along the A420 - to the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford.

It was on one of these occasions, when standing at the road side, that he thought how little attention was given to a great man in a “grave behind us” – in Longworth – that of David Kelly.

From this moment he set about forming a group called “Justice For Kelly” (JFK). The group is said to have about 140 members – but is – exceptionally – quite off-line.

Gerrard Jonas and his colleagues have made an effort to increase the recognition of David Kelly. They started by making regular visits to his grave and placing flowers upon it.

However, it soon seemed these flowers were being removed!

In 2014, Gerrard Jonas wrote to the Home Office in respect of a number of matters concerning David Kelly. The matter of flowers left on David Kelly’s grave arose – inter alia.

The site of David Kelly’s Grave at St Mary’s Church, Longworth, Oxfordshire

Gerrard Jonas was told, in a letter, from the Department of Justice, concerning David Kelly’s grave, to stop putting flowers on the grave as it was against the wishes of the Kelly family.

Additionally, the Department of Justice said that David Kelly’s grave had now been put under surveillance.

David Kelly’s grave - in a remote grave in a corner of a remote country churchyard - has been put under surveillance!

Surprisingly – it is technically quite easy to do – without any significant infrastructural works.

It reminds me of Thomas Gray’s poem - Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard; an added line doesn’t seem out-of-place -

The curfew tolls the knell of parting day

The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea

The ploughman homeward plods his weary way

And leaves the world to darkness and to me

But for one all-seeing sly Orwellian eye

The Kelly family and the Home Office

Here we seem to have some clear evidence of the wishes of the Kelly family to leave David Kelly’s grave unadorned and unattended.

One has to ask why, this hugely eminent scientist, has seemingly been posthumously divorced by his family?

Additionally we have clear evidence of a continuing association, more than 10 years after David Kelly’s death, of the Kelly family and a central Department of Government - the Home Office – the Department of Justice.

A reliable colleague, who has some knowledge of the Kelly family, has told me that Mrs Kelly has been given a point of contact in Bircham Dyson Bell. This contact is available to her if she needs urgent advice. Bircham Dyson Bell is a firm of London lawyers. They are a little unusual in having a specialised Parliamentary and Political division and also act for ex-Prime Minister Tony Blair.

Intuitively – if I was a member of the Kelly family – my first instinct would be to regard his employer – the Government - as culpable in his death. Why are the Kelly family and the Government seemingly collaborating in matters of David Kelly’s grave?

Here we have a photograph of David Kelly at his daughter Ellen’s wedding in Longworth – just five months before his death. He was said to have been very well and in good form. There was no suspicion then or later of any unusual issues within the family.

David Kelly and a Toxic Lie

As I have said, several times, I think the Kelly family has been told something very toxic about David Kelly. The very clear evidence of Mr Gerrard Jonas supports this perception.

What could have been said – to his family - about David Kelly to create such a reaction?

I have discussed this with several like-minded colleagues. We have dismissed –

• sexual infidelity
• espionage
• financial corruption
• drug trafficking
• blackmailing and others

Eventually, and very reluctantly, we have had to conclude that a label of “paedophile” would fulfil all the observed effects. And is the most likely false allegation to have been presented to the Kelly family.

Thus – I suspect that David Kelly’s family has been fed the lie that David Kelly was a paedophile.

Promptly after David Kelly’s death his phone, camera, and computers were “seized” by TVP; “seized” means taken, legally, into the care of TVP. Government agents could easily have presented the Kelly family with falsified computer records of paedophile material.

TVP has released virtually nothing about the contents of these devices. What little has been released is, technically (I am advised by an expert) seriously in error.

My colleague, referred to above, has heard Jan Kelly say that TVP found David Kelly’s computer contained material that he shouldn’t have had. But – my colleague assumed that this referred to matters of marginal security clearance etc.

The same colleague has also said that Jan Kelly has thrown away memorabilia of her husband – David Kelly and their prior life.

Thus, there emerges a scenario in which the Kelly family seems to have disowned David Kelly. Disowned him because of false allegations about his character.

A Horrendous Crime

If my suspicion is true - then a horrendous crime has been committed.

Committed by officers of Her Majesty’s Government.

An enormously vile crime – to create and perpetuate a lie - that labels a deceased, decent, honest and eminent scientist a paedophile.

A lie that, with falsified evidence, his very distressed family has accepted.

As a result his family –

• has complied with the Government’s preferred account of events surrounding his death
• has effectively, posthumously, “divorced” David Kelly
• and cause his family to expunge memories of him
• ensured that the family doesn’t want these toxic matters aired in a public enquiry – in other words – a Coroner’s Inquest

The Kelly family has been nicely wrapped up and isn’t going to ask any questions.

The appalling task – set out and enacted by government employees – probably from the Home Office in some form or another – was completed and delivered as tasked – and no doubt well rewarded.


A Third Matter

My lawyers have advised me that the third part of this Chapter – some 600 words cannot be published as I wrote it - for risk of action for defamation.

But – I can say that Norman Baker led the way in his book of 2007.

On page 219 of his book he says - of various rumours –

“One, actually repeated to me in all seriousness by a very senior BBC executive, was that a leading figure in the Hutton inquiry process was known by the government to have had a paedophile past in a part of the United Kingdom well away from London.”

There is much significant detail in his words. Especially the mention of –

• “a very senior BBC executive”, and
• “a leading figure in the Hutton inquiry process . . . well away from London.”

In 2015 a blog elaborated upon this rumour – and seemingly identified - “a leading figure in the Hutton inquiry process . . . well away from London.”

However – it didn’t identify the “very senior BBC executive”.

His identity is known to me – and is probably very well-known in media circles.

A competent internet search should reveal the identity of Norman Baker’s –

• “a leading figure in the Hutton inquiry process . . . well away from London.”

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A Fourth Matter

Very early on the morning of 25 July 2017 people began to arrive at St Mary Church, Longworth. They were a diverse collection of specialists and experts together with their specialist equipment.

Collectively, they moved to the northernmost part of the Church’s graveyard.

This was a recent extension opened in 1990.

The Exhumation of Dr David Christopher KELLY CMG DPhil

They congregated in the middle of new graveyard around one grave. This was on the northern edge of the graveyard. At times, they couldn’t but cast a glance to the north – to the nearby Harrowdown Hill.

The burial they surrounded had taken place in 2003 amidst international media coverage. The attendees included international politicians, scientists, journalists and long-time friends and family. The church service was highly planned, guarded and broadcast world-wide by Sky television.

Now, as twilight grew brighter, tarpaulins were laid out. Beneath a large tent spades slid into the soft, moist, rich soil. The expert diggers quickly cut a trench down to their target – a coffin.

The site of David Kelly’s grave as it is now

Careful excavation around the fragile coffin allowed it to be lifted by a set of straps. Then the coffin was opened and with immense care to verify the contents – the body of Dr David Kelly CMG DPhil (Oxon). The old coffin and body were moved into a new coffin. The new coffin was taken to a waiting hearse.

He was a quietly spoken Welshman – and an eminent scientist.

He was one of the world’s greatest experts in biological warfare – this was a great concern during the Cold War. He identified the massive Russian efforts in this area. He work was critical in negotiating the closedown of these Weapons of Mass Destruction. For this, it is said, that he was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize – but these records are closed for 50 year.

Now after 14 years in its resting-place, his body had been removed – why?

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