By Glen Owen and Miles Goslett | Daily Mail/UK, July 13, 2009
No inquest: Dr David Kelly in the days before his deathThe death of Government scientist David Kelly returned to haunt Labour today as a group of doctors announced that they were mounting a legal challenge to overturn the finding of suicide.
Dr Kelly’s body was found six years ago this week in woods close to his Oxfordshire home, shortly after he was exposed as the source of a BBC news report questioning the grounds for war in Iraq.
Unusually, no coroner’s inquest was held into his death.
The only official verdict has come from the Hutton Inquiry, commissioned by Tony Blair, which concluded that Dr Kelly, 59, died from loss of blood after cutting his wrist with a blunt gardening knife.
Critics regarded the report as a ‘whitewash’, and Mr Blair remains acutely sensitive to the accusation that he has ‘blood on his hands’ over the scientist’s death.
Peace and Justice Post 
Due process subverted in Dr Kelly’s death inquiry
January 28, 2010This week it was revealed that Lord Hutton, the peer who chaired the Hutton inquiry, placed a 70-year gag on the evidence surrounding the death of weapons expert Dr David Kelly.
The establishment narrative was that Kelly had committed suicide. But since his death in 2003 more and more doubts have surfaced over the official version of events.
A group of doctors, including myself, is among the growing number of sceptics.
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