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.
- 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.
An Email
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| 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 –
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
- 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.
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 fonts of different sizes
- in different fonts
- and some in bold font setting
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.
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| David Kelly’s neglected grave |
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.
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.
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| 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.
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.”
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.
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| The Exhumation of Dr David Christopher KELLY CMG DPhil |
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.
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| The site of David Kelly’s grave as it is now |
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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