Monday, December 07, 2009

Doctors' bid to open Iraq WMD dossier David Kelly inquest

Six doctors are to take legal action in a bid to reopen the inquest in to weapons inspector Dr David Kelly.

The scientist, 59, was found dead in woods near his Oxfordshire home in July 2003, after being named as the source that claimed the Government had "sexed up" a dossier on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.

An inquiry by Lord Hutton concluded Dr Kelly, a Ministry of Defence advisor, had died from cuts to his wrist and an overdose of powerful painkillers.

But a group of six doctors want the case re-examined, claiming there is insufficient evidence to prove he committed suicide.

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