tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-309809082024-03-13T21:49:46.298-07:00Dr David KellyIn 2003 Dr David Kelly was found dead in the woods. Caught in a political vortex, Dr Kelly had been forced to appear before a televised government committee investigating whether he had accused British government figures of planting in a dossier the questionable claim that WMDs could be unleashed from Iraq in 45 minutes. The Hutton Inquiry concluded that Dr Kelly took his own life. But did he? This blog takes a closer look....
Contact: RowenaThursby@onetel.comRowena Thursbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00444270594885298483noreply@blogger.comBlogger73125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30980908.post-90980002781215570552010-10-31T07:47:00.000-07:002010-10-31T16:27:24.552-07:00LETTER TO DOMINIC GRIEVE, ATTORNEY GENERAL FROM EXPERT IN PHARMACOLOGY, DR ANDREW WATT, BA, BMedBiol(Pathology), MBChB, MD(Hons), DipPharmMed,FRCP(Ed)Open Letter to the Attorney General regarding the need for an inquest into the death of Dr David KellyYesterday, I sent by recorded delivery a letter to Dominic Grieve QC, requesting that he apply to the High Court for an order that an inquest be Rowena Thursbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00444270594885298483noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30980908.post-50929656314113931582010-08-27T05:42:00.000-07:002010-08-27T07:12:22.888-07:00LETTER REGARDING CO-PROXAMOLThis letter, from a retired anaesthetist - published in the Daily Telegraph on 24th August -speaks of the inconclusive nature of one of the secondary averred causes of Dr Kelly's death: co-proxamol poisoning.'the fact that the blood level of Dp was so low as to be below that necessary for cardio-respiratory dpression suggests that not many tablets ever arrived in the Rowena Thursbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00444270594885298483noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30980908.post-10172924768043693742010-08-18T11:33:00.000-07:002010-08-18T15:02:43.326-07:00PISS AND WIND: DAVID AARONOVITCH ON THE DEATH DAVID KELLYTim Wilkinson's lively critique of David Aaronovitch's article in Saturday's 'Times' (14 August 2010) 'There is no mystery over David Kelly's death' proclaims the headline. Well, in one sense you might say that: no mystery, no esoteric ineffables, no transcendent unknown. Of course that is not the sense in which the headline is supposed Rowena Thursbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00444270594885298483noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30980908.post-62527408614749083902010-08-16T12:00:00.000-07:002010-08-18T02:43:54.331-07:00KELLY'S DEATH: INACCURACY IN MEDIAby Rowena ThursbyAccording to a recent report in the Independent, a frog-like jump across the lilly pad has transmuted the cause of Dr David Kelly's death from "haemorrhage" (Hutton Inquiry) to "heart attack" (Independent): "Kelly had heart attack, says pathologist" blares the headline.Dr Jennifer Dyson, a retired pathologist, tells an Independent reporter, "Rowena Thursbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00444270594885298483noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30980908.post-54435306601245414822010-08-14T14:49:00.000-07:002010-08-15T08:07:34.677-07:00 DR KELLY WAS A BRILLIANT MAN WHO DID HIS BEST FOR HIS COUNTRY. WE OWE IT TO HIM AND TO OURSELVES TO DISCOVER THE TRUE CAUSE OF HIS DEATH. In this powerfully argued article, doctor and barrister, Dr Michael Powers QC explains why justice demands an inquest is held.Since his untimely death in July 2003, questions have continued to be raised about the circumstances of Dr David Kelly's death. Many Rowena Thursbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00444270594885298483noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30980908.post-70125735579657198362010-08-14T02:36:00.000-07:002010-08-14T02:54:56.269-07:0013th August 2010VIDEO: ITN - EXPERTS DEMAND FULL KELLY INQUESTRowena Thursbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00444270594885298483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30980908.post-474971309187454772010-08-14T01:38:00.000-07:002010-08-14T02:29:20.106-07:0013th August 2010TIME FOR A PROPER INQUEST INTO DR KELLY'S DEATHSirAmid the continuing interest surrounding the death of the government weapons inspector, the late Dr David Kelly, we wish to express our concern about the conclusion as to the cause of death in the light of the information now in the public domain. It is extremely unlikely, from a medical perspective, that the primary cause of deathRowena Thursbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00444270594885298483noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30980908.post-19206930689429722642010-01-24T15:51:00.000-08:002010-01-24T16:32:45.457-08:00LORD HUTTON INSTRUCTS DAVID KELLY'S POST MORTEM TO BE KEPT SECRET FOR 70 YEARS (for full report, click on title)Not only the post-mortem report - all medical reports. Access to unpublished evidence, including dozens of witness statements will be denied for 30 years.If Dr Kelly took his own life, why would all medical details need to be kept secret?Why keep them secret for 70 years?On what date Rowena Thursbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00444270594885298483noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30980908.post-65537219096710247972009-08-08T09:49:00.000-07:002009-08-08T09:59:36.078-07:00WATCH TELEVISED DEBATE:THE STRANGE DEATH OF DR KELLY: WHY DO QUESTIONS STILL REMAIN?The panel of four:Norman Baker MPFrances Swaine of Leigh, Day & Co solicitorsMarc Sigsworth, Producer of the BBC 2 Conspiracy Files programme on Dr Kelly's deathNick Pope, MoDRowena Thursbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00444270594885298483noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30980908.post-23729201508315428392009-08-02T07:57:00.000-07:002009-08-02T09:52:13.500-07:00So Saddam Hussein authorises injecting Sarin and mustard gas into perfume bottles, and having them shipped to the West? Given the originator of the claim is from the neocon stable, one has to take the assertions with a pinch of salt. Let's hear more from Dick Spertzel about his sources. -- RTSUNDAY EXPRESS:IRAQIS KILLED KELLY TO KEEP GAS ATTACK SECRETby James Murray2 August 2009Sensational Rowena Thursbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00444270594885298483noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30980908.post-74433231442056346092009-07-26T03:49:00.000-07:002009-07-26T04:01:34.583-07:00NOW LAWYER CALLS FOR NEW DAVID KELLY DEATH PROBERowena Thursbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00444270594885298483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30980908.post-40983760025674316452009-07-20T05:34:00.000-07:002009-07-20T05:39:31.307-07:00DAILY MAIL:POLITICIANS ON ALL SIDES UNITE IN DEMAND FOR DAVID KELLY INQUESTRowena Thursbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00444270594885298483noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30980908.post-4172323739193465832009-07-19T09:20:00.000-07:002009-07-19T09:25:16.769-07:00NEW RT VIDEO: SUSPICIOUS DEATH OF UK TOP WEAPONS EXPERTRowena Thursbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00444270594885298483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30980908.post-52273601774389381002009-07-19T05:59:00.000-07:002009-07-19T09:49:32.838-07:00 DR DAVID KELLY BACK IN THE NEWS: Eleven doctors launch legal campaign to force an inquest Was Dr Kelly in the process of writing an expose?Did MI5 Kill Dr Kelly?Was Dr Kelly a target of Dick Cheney's "Executive Assassination Ring"? "Anthrax War" - a new documentary by Bob Coen and Eric Nadler links Dr Kelly with Wouter Basson, former head of South Africa's secret bioweapons programme, and Rowena Thursbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00444270594885298483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30980908.post-7312528314657400652009-04-06T02:06:00.000-07:002009-04-06T02:21:30.854-07:00In memoriam Dr. David Kelly. RIPToday is the fifth anniversary of publication of the Hutton Report into the circumstances surrounding the death of Dr. David Kelly, CMG. This was the biggest load of whitewash for government disgrace in a generation. It was a massive cover-up from start to finish. Unfortunately the media seemed not to notice. And they still haven’t noticed.Dr Kelly was the leading Rowena Thursbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00444270594885298483noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30980908.post-5958847251598569832008-08-31T08:42:00.000-07:002009-07-19T09:33:40.145-07:00David Kelly's closest female confidante on why he COULDN'T have killed himself By Sharon Churcher31st August 2008 A female confidante of Dr David Kelly raised disturbing new questions last night over how the Ministry of Defence weapons inspector was able to kill himself. After his body was discovered in woods near his Oxfordshire home in July 2003, a Government inquiry led by Lord Hutton ruled Rowena Thursbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00444270594885298483noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30980908.post-45373137382269947722008-08-26T10:27:00.000-07:002008-08-26T10:49:50.285-07:00Police helicopter failed to spot dead body of 'suicide' scientistBY GARRICK ALDERNew information obtained by Bedfordshire on Sunday says the body of Dr David Kelly was not discovered despite the police helicopter flying directly over the spot where he was eventually found.Dr Kelly was found dead in July 2003 at the height of the controversy over the Iraq invasion. There has never been an inquest Rowena Thursbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00444270594885298483noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30980908.post-85515946600630215722008-03-10T16:44:00.001-07:002008-12-09T05:30:54.160-08:00 Friday, February 22, 2008"Without access to the evidence we can only work on likelihoods" The Strange Death of Dr Kelly. Interview with Rowena Thursby Some of the credit for not ever letting the Dr Kelly issue drop goes to a lady by the name of Rowena Thursby. In the wake of the unquestioned suicide verdict and the one-sided nature of the Lord Hutton report, Ms Thursby had the resolve to piece Rowena Thursbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00444270594885298483noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30980908.post-89263092209525098292008-03-10T08:17:00.000-07:002008-12-09T05:30:54.465-08:00 Monday, February 18, 2008 "It was impossible for Dr Kelly to have died like that" Hagley Road interviews Norman Baker MP, author of "The Strange Death of David Kelly"According to the stereotype, MPs are a collection of spineless, boring and samey individuals. After the squalid 10-year-long display offered by most Labour Party MPs under Messiah Tony, it's now quite difficult to argue against thatRowena Thursbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00444270594885298483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30980908.post-76951500219666248072008-01-17T02:31:00.000-08:002008-01-17T15:51:13.683-08:00Media Disinformation regarding the Death of Dr. David Kelly? It may or may not be disinformation, but it is a shabby attempt at a review.Richard Norton-Taylor, author of a Guardian review of Norman Baker's book,"The Strange Death of David Kelly", quotes out of context to make it seem as though Baker concedes that Kelly's dismay at apparently being caught in a lie at the FAC (Foreign Affairs Rowena Thursbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00444270594885298483noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30980908.post-4289672181333628122008-01-10T10:11:00.000-08:002008-12-09T05:30:54.631-08:00 Government rejects call for new David Kelly inquiryAndy Tate, The Argus9th January 2008 The Government has rejected calls for a new inquiry into the death of weapons expert Dr David Kelly following claims in a book by Lewes MP Norman Baker that he may have been murdered. Lord Hutton's report into the death of the scientist concluded that Dr Kelly had committed suicide, but Mr Baker, in a book Rowena Thursbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00444270594885298483noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30980908.post-24266507875155119902007-12-09T06:24:00.000-08:002008-12-09T05:30:54.757-08:00 WHAT BOOK?By MICHAEL HOROVITZ7th December 2007 I am reading The Strange Death Of David Kelly by Norman Baker MP, which proves Dr Kelly had been doing his job all too well for Blair's liking. In 1995 Kelly did find the site and traces of a dirty bomb which had been tested in 1987. This WMD presumably remained undossiered because Britain helped Saddam to develop it when ministers were selling Rowena Thursbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00444270594885298483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30980908.post-51168696680125087502007-12-01T05:54:00.000-08:002008-12-09T05:30:54.860-08:00ALONE IN THE WOODS Richard Norton-Taylor is unconvinced by the conspiracy theories in The Strange Death of David Kelly by Norman BakerRichard Norton-TaylorSaturday December 1, 2007GuardianThe Strange Death of David Kellyby Norman Baker 399pp, Methuen, £9.99 Norman Baker, Liberal Democrat MP for Lewes, is one of parliament's most persistent harassers of ministers and officials. Over the past year Rowena Thursbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00444270594885298483noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30980908.post-29222433485977867812007-11-26T14:44:00.000-08:002008-12-09T05:30:55.154-08:00Death of a scientist by Reg LittleOxford Times16 November CORONER Nicholas Gardiner spoke in Latin to bring to a close the Oxford inquest into the death of Dr David Kelly."Functus officio," he said, in a barely audible whisper, best translated as "my task is done, I have no further function".However, it would have been difficult three-and-a-half years ago to find anybody at Oxford's Old Assize Rowena Thursbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00444270594885298483noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30980908.post-10191240610065512762007-11-22T16:35:00.000-08:002008-12-09T05:30:55.350-08:00Who killed David Kelly? Nigel Jones reviews 'The Strange Death of David Kelly' by Norman Baker Reading this sombrely factual book in tandem with Robert Harris's equally plausible political thriller, The Ghost, is an eerily surreal experience: similar worlds, peopled by similar characters, blur and blend, until it is difficult to tell where one ends and the other begins. The anti-heroes of both Rowena Thursbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00444270594885298483noreply@blogger.com0