BEWARE THIS MP'S 'DOSSIER'

by Stotty [Richard Stott, Editor of Sunday Mirror, early 90s]

Sunday Mirror
30 July 2006

IT is a sad fact of life that when a horrible and unexpected death occurs there are always those who will not accept anything except conspiracy and murder. It happened to Diana and it is happening now to Dr David Kelly, the scientist who killed himself after being revealed as the weapons expert contact of the BBC's Andrew Gilligan.

A "dossier" of half-baked detail has been produced by the self-important Lib Dem MP Norman Baker which actually doesn't add up to a row of beans. Except some people will believe anything if it suits their purpose.

For Baker to get off square one he has to show two things. One, that somebody or some organisation would have benefited from Kelly's death. Two, there was no reason for him to take his own life and little prospect of him doing so. Neither is the case.

The Government, security services, Prime Minister etc. were the last people to want Dr Kelly dead because he discredited much of what Gilligan said and was in no position to know detail of the rest. His death plunged Blair and his government into a major crisis.

There was, however, a reason why Dr Kelly was desperate following his appearance before a House of Commons select committee. He did not tell MPs the truth about his own dealings with journalists. They knew that because he had been betrayed by Gilligan. He realised his future was in serious jeopardy and with it much of his life's work compromised.

Kelly was an intensely private man and could see the whirlwind about to strike. He decided not to wait for it. It is a tragedy that the meanderings of a bit-part MP should bring the pain back to Dr Kelly's family. He was a good man who made one mistake and decided to pay for it his way. Norman Baker should let it go.

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LETTER TO SUNDAY MIRROR:

Dear Sir

Even my mother - a life-long Mirror reader and until last week's article, 'Beware this MP's 'Dossier'", a keen fan of Stotty - was appalled. Enough discrepancies surround the case, before and after Dr Kelly's death, to fill a bestseller.

His corpse, according to the search volunteers who first discovered it, was propped against the foot of a tree. In his report, Lord Hutton admitted having seen a photograph of the body against the tree. But the official Thames Valley police search team told the Hutton Inquiry his body was lying horizontally, away from the tree.

In the horizontal position, one of his trouser legs was halfway up his shins, as if he had been pulled away from the tree by his feet. Why? The simple answer is gravity. Dr Kelly had dried vomit stains running from the corners of his mouth to his earlobe. This could only happen when laid horizontal.

His corpse was in all likelihood moved to cover the fact that the dumping of his body against the tree was a botched job. An unofficial Thames Valley police team - showed to the body by the searchers - had the opportunity to move it Given a proper inquest, with evidence taken under oath, a suicide verdict would be totally out of the question.

Pete Simpson
Newbury
Berkshire UK