The Paramedics
Vanessa Hunt and David Bartlett received a call, at about 09:40, to go to Longworth – to the end of Tucks Lane. They were a very experienced crew and had seen most sorts of human mishaps that you could imagine. I interviewed them several times; they told me a great deal of detail about their visit – which was very important detail.
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| Vanessa Hunt and David Bartlett |
Vanessa Hunt said that it was clear to her that, at the Hutton Inquiry, Lord Hutton “wanted me out of there as fast as possible”.
En route to Longworth they were given the code call “Kilo one” – this means “someone thought to be dead – but not yet proven”.
Given the rural location they expected to find a hanging or a shooting.
They arrived at the end of Tuck’s Lane at 09:55. There were police vans and a lot of policemen on site - completely beyond normal experience or expectations.
There were uniformed officers, CID officers and much to their surprise there were officers clad in black only – that they recognised as members of the Armed Response Unit. In all some 30–40 officers.
They had assumed they were attending a routine call-out. However, it was very clear that they had arrived at a totally exceptional event - they wondered what on earth they were going to find.
A police sergeant who met them wouldn’t let them take the ambulance any further.
They recalled his name very clearly; he answered his radio with the name Dad; later they found out that this was Dadd – Sergeant Alan Dadd.
They collected all they could carry and walked almost half a mile to the copse on Harrowdown Hill. The sergeant turned sharp left and walked up into the copse – between branches and bushes. Here they saw David Kelly’s body flat on its back with his head some 18″ from a tree trunk.
Vanessa Hunt told me that the body had been left unattended. She had never been lead to a body that had no police officer looking after it. In her experience this was unique – yet there were well over 30 police officers on the site.
David Bartlett’s reaction to the scene was that it looked as though David Kelly’s body had fallen out of the tree; as though an attempted suicide by hanging had gone wrong.
A very odd scene
I describe events as told to me by Vanessa Hunt & David Bartlett.
They knew immediately that things were not right.
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| David Kelly’s body, above as found by the searchers, below as found by the paramedics |
- First - there was no police officer with the body – it was quite unattended when they arrived.
- Second – no taped, protected pathway had been set up – they just had to follow Sergeant Dadd as he found his way to the body.
- Third – why was an apparent suicide was not sat against the tree trunk? It seemed the obvious position to find the body. They asked “has he fallen out of the tree” in an attempted hanging?
- Fourth – there was a water bottle, standing upright, a watch and knife neatly put in line up on the left side of the body. Assuming that the deceased was right handed (which he was), they would have expected these to be put to his right hand side.
- Fifth – as they arrived two police officers walked up behind then. These were presumably PCs Franklin and Sawyer.
At the HI, these officers describe a different account – namely that they arrived first and the paramedics arrived two minutes later. Vanessa Hunt is clear that they were there first.
Vanessa Hunt then prepared to perform an ECG recording but PC Sawyer wanted to take photographs first. - Sixth – an ordinary PC took the photographs with what seemed to be a personal camera. She would have expected a Scenes of Crime Officer (SOCO) to do these.
When allowed, Vanessa Hunt unbuttoned David Kelly’s shirt and applied four ECG electrodes to his chest. The recording was of a dead heart – a flat line.
However, Vanessa Hunt had trouble applying one of the ECG electrodes on the right-hand side of the chest. - David Kelly’s right arm was lying on his chest and had well-developed rigor mortis. This is perfectly normal for a body that has been dead for some time. She had to work her way around the rigid right arm to get the electrodes in the correct position.
- One of the first things that David Bartlett commented on to me when I met him were the two striking and unusual brown marks on David Kelly’s face.
He said that it simply couldn’t be vomit because it was so symmetrical; vomit would have run over from one side of the mouth or other – but not both.
He mentioned this at the Hutton Inquiry. The Questions & Answers went thus –
Q. What about the face? Did you notice anything about the face?
A. Yes, going from the corners of the mouth were two stains, one slightly longer than the other.
Q. Where did the stains go to from the mouth?
A. Towards the bottom of the ears.
Q. Did you check for a pulse?
The last question was the typical of the Hutton Inquiry – a quick side step when an unplanned issue arose. - Vanessa Hunt had to get down on her knees to put the ECG electrodes onto David Kelly’s chest.
She too saw the brown marks on the face of David Kelly. They ran from the corners of his mouth to below his ears. They were so obvious and unusual that Vanessa Hunt wondered if David Kelly had had a gag wrapped around his neck and across his mouth.
Brown Marks on Face
It is very clear that both Vanessa Hunt and David Bartlett considered the two brown marks on David Kelly’s bearded face very distinctive and unusual.
I can explain these significant observations later – and they are very important.
PC Martyn Sawyer
In response to a question, at the Hutton Inquiry, about David Kelly’s clothing PC Sawyer said –
“His jeans -- he was wearing jeans, they were pulled up slightly, exposing the lower half of his leg or his ankle. It looked as if he had slid down and his trousers had ridden up.”
Dr Hunt – pathologist
It is worth adding here Dr Hunt’s observations of David Kelly’s trousers –
“The left leg of the jeans was pulled up to approximately mid-calf level. The right leg was pulled up to just above the ankle”
These observation fit exactly the effect of moving David Kelly’s away from the tree.
Sergeant Allan DADD
They had arrived at the Harrowdown Hill area a little before the paramedics arrived.
The paramedics were met and escorted to and from David Kelly’s body by a Sergeant - Sergeant Allan Dadd.
It is strange that at the Hutton Inquiry it is said that PC Sawyer led the search team. But the paramedics sensed that Sergeant Dadd was in control of the site.
Sergeant Dadd, PC Sawyer and PC Franklin were all embers of the Thames Valley Police Support Team based at Windsor Great Park.
Sergeant Dadd lived in Winnersh – a suburb of Reading – about 5 miles east of Reading town centre.
What was a TVP Sergeant from Reading doing on Harrowdown Hill that morning?
We don’t know - all we know is that he didn’t contribute to the Hutton Inquiry yet was present at Harrowdown Hill in a position of some seniority.
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