The practice was found by Mrs Jayne Venables in 2011. This arose from her investigations in preparation for writing a play about David Kelly’s death.
I have spent much time talking to the senior practice staff – but Dr Bozena Kanas will not admit that David Kelly was her patient – for the legal reasons of NHS rules.
I am very grateful to all the senior staff of the practice – as it was in 2003 – for their great help.
Below is my best guess at the events concerning the movement of the dental record. It is speculative in detail – but based on an underlying truth – and the documented operational style of these officers. TVP have given details of the events on two occasions – links to these are given at the end of the chapter.
A Burglary
Control & Command (C&C) pulled together a team of two 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 their destination. They were aware that some massive “flap” was on and just did as they were told.
Soon they received their exact destination – the Ock Street Clinic, 45 Ock Street, Abingdon, OX14 5AG. This was the very early morning of 18 July 2003 – before David Kelly’s body had been “found”.
They arrived at about 03:30 am and parked their car a short way away from the address. 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 entrance – into Fitchett Yard. This took him to the back of the Clinic.
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| Ock Street Clinic in the evening. The practice extends from the single story building into house on the right – and beyond the central archway. |
Here was just a simple garden fence, about 5 feet tall, around the back of the Clinic. He looked around for signs of life or CCTV cameras. It looked quite safe – he legged it over the fence and hit the ground.
After a couple of minutes 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.
He opened his tool kit and tried to open the window – but, although it was quite old, he couldn’t open it without risk breaking the glass. He looked at the door. This had a simple mortise lock and after a couple of minutes he had it open. 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 colleague – outside in their car – via a radio link.
By then there was now some debate in C&C if it was necessary to get David Kelly’s dental records. Events were moving very quickly and it was difficult to keep track of parallel plans.
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| Plan of Dental Clinic in red; hatched area is rough ground at rear. |
The Dental Team said that they had already entered the building 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 this would be one 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 – easily found and taken.
The Dental Team locked the Clinic and left Abingdon.
They didn’t realise that they would make a return visit in 24 hours. Even by their standards this was a very unusual exercise.
C&C had soon decided that the option of destroying David Kelly’s body was off their menu. Thus the dental records would be returned the following night.
A Second Burglary
Thus the Dental Team came back to Town on the Saturday evening – the 19th July.
The dental records had been copied back at base but returned to their transit pack.
The Dental Team drove back to Abingdon and repeated their work of 48 hours before. This time, a Saturday night - the town was a bit busier than it had been on the Thursday. They left it a bit later before repeating their entry and put the records back in Dr Kanas’s filing cabinet. As before getting into the Clinic and returning the records was easy. The Dental Team left the Clinic as they found it and returned to base.
C&C breathed a sigh of relief. This part of their plan was by far and away the most sinister and evil part of the plans they made that night.
They knew that this must never come to light.
This exercise was a long shot done successfully by great experts under great time pressure.
C&C were now quite relaxed about the matter of the dental records. It was now history and the matter was closed.
But - the matter wasn’t closed
As explained in Chapter 3 “A Visit to the Dentist” David Kelly’s dentist – Dr Bozena Kanas – was very alert.
She quickly recognised the loss of David Kelly’s dental record – a little after midday on 18th July.
Extreme efforts were used to confirm the loss of the records. Two days later, Dr Kanas, looked yet again for David Kelly dental record – and found it filed where it should be.
As I have explained Dr Kanas reported the loss of and return of the records to TVP. This was late on the evening of Sunday 20th July.
A rather bizarre crime report in that, eventually, nothing had been lost.
Seemingly - no crime had been committed.
Dr Kanas had no idea what the response of TVP might be. Possibly nothing at all, or possibly a visit by a local Abingdon PC to tick-box a routine report.
But she was relieved that this mystery was behind her. But – it wasn’t - it was to be an issue for many years thereafter.
I am publishing the full account of this some 15 years after the event.
A Surreal scenario
On Monday 31st July the Ock Street Clinic, 45 Ock Street in Abingdon started life as usual.
At the end of the day Dr Robert Farrant, a senior partner, described the subsequent events as unbelievably surreal.
This to be explained in Chapter 15.
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