tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-309809082012-02-03T06:32:57.099-08:00Dr 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.comBlogger731100tag: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.com1tag: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.com0tag: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.com3tag: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.com2tag: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.com1tag: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.com11tag: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.com2tag: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.com5tag: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.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30980908.post-41588721775485977712007-11-13T06:52:00.000-08:002008-12-09T05:30:55.542-08:00Norman Baker: My search for the truth – and why I think David Kelly was murdered MORE than three years after Lord Hutton published his inquiry report, the death of Dr David Kelly simply won't go away. It won't because Lord Hutton, charged with examining the circumstances of his death, did nothing of the sort, instead devoting nearly all his energies to refereeing the spat between the Government Rowena Thursbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00444270594885298483noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30980908.post-16715353338547638682007-11-12T16:35:00.000-08:002007-11-12T16:48:21.167-08:00from Xymphora's blogspot.....'Kelly disinformation'Be careful of a clever disinformation campaign being created around the murder of David Kelly. From The Independent, on Norman Baker’s recent revelations:“The MP alleges that opponents of Saddam Hussein feared Dr Kelly would ‘discredit’ them by revealing ‘misinformation’ they had planted to bolster the case for British and American intervention Rowena Thursbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00444270594885298483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30980908.post-79729280625105659152007-11-12T16:07:00.000-08:002008-12-09T05:30:55.742-08:00Kelly inquest 'should be resumed'The inquest into the death of Dr David Kelly should be reconvened, says the Lib Dem MP who believes the weapons expert did not commit suicide. Norman Baker, who claims Dr Kelly may have been killed by anti-Saddam Iraqis, says his death should have been subject to a full coroner's inquest. Lord Hutton's inquiry into Dr Kelly's death found he had committed Rowena Thursbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00444270594885298483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30980908.post-57960903911969424632007-11-11T09:27:00.000-08:002007-11-11T09:50:00.364-08:00The Strange Death of David Kelly by Norman BakerReviewed by Nick Rufford The Sunday TimesNovember 11, 2007Consider this: several senior doctors write to a newspaper to take issue with the official explanation of how David Kelly died. John Scurr, an expert in vascular surgery, concludes: “Frankly I don’t believe that simply cutting an ulnar artery will cause death.” The first paramedics to attend Rowena Thursbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00444270594885298483noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30980908.post-28710757715860640382007-11-11T05:10:00.000-08:002008-12-09T05:30:55.927-08:00 'I feared I'd end up dead in the woods like Dr Kelly,' says biological warfare expert who criticised Britain and U.S.By GLEN OWEN and OLIVER WADESON Fighting back: Jill Dekker was given special protection by the Belgian government after a series of 'sinister' incidents.An EU expert on biological warfare has told how she fears ending up 'dead in the woods' like scientist Dr David Kelly after an Rowena Thursbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00444270594885298483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30980908.post-34412147435208712082007-10-26T15:39:00.000-07:002008-12-09T05:30:56.208-08:00 Media War against "Conspiracy Theorists" Update - UK: Murdoch-CIA-Mafia's Times Book Reviewer Trashes MP'S Conspiracy Book Before Reading it by Alex ConstantineDavid Aaronovitch is a columnist for London's Times. Like Carl Bernstein, his parents were communists and his public image is liberal. Fittingly, he won the George Orwell Prize for political journalism in 2001. Here we find that Rowena Thursbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00444270594885298483noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30980908.post-41701931367972260842007-10-24T06:42:00.000-07:002008-12-09T05:30:56.443-08:00Campbell, that dodgy dossier and the lies that cost David Kelly his lifeBy NORMAN BAKER23rd October 2007 Comments (9) To the organisers of the auction to raise money for Labour Party funds, it probably seemed a good idea at the time. Why not ask Cherie Blair to autograph a copy of the 750-page document which saved her husband's political career and offer it as one of the lots? A copy was Rowena Thursbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00444270594885298483noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30980908.post-52512612730044059622007-10-23T10:14:00.000-07:002008-12-09T05:30:56.739-08:00 Travesty of the truth: Was the Hutton Inquiry into David Kelly's death just part of the cover-up?By NORMAN BAKER MP23rd October 2007 Comments (7) Norman Baker is one of Westminster's most respected MPs.In a major new book, he reveals the results of his year-long investigation into the death of weapons inspector David Kelly — and why he believes the scientist was murdered after exposing Tony Rowena Thursbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00444270594885298483noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30980908.post-78009050931143759512007-10-22T13:20:00.000-07:002008-12-09T05:30:56.977-08:00Did two hired assassins snatch weapons inspector David Kelly?NORMAN BAKER 22nd October 2007 Weapons inspector David Kelly was the decent man apparently hounded to suicide after exposing Tony Blair's lies on Iraq.But the crusading MP Norman Baker felt sure there was something more to his death - and gave up his front-bench role to investigate the case. In the Mail he revealed extraordinary Rowena Thursbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00444270594885298483noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30980908.post-44802670903341089492007-10-21T07:49:00.001-07:002008-12-09T05:30:57.240-08:00Kelly family appeals for calm after new murder claims by MP Brian Brady and Rachel ShieldsIndependent21 October 2007The family of David Kelly, the government weapons expert, last night appealed for him to be allowed to rest in peace as an MP claimed that he was assassinated to stop him revealing more details about the "lies" that took Britain to war in Iraq.The outspoken Liberal Democrat Norman Rowena Thursbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00444270594885298483noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30980908.post-1914681825747021092007-10-19T16:47:00.000-07:002008-12-09T05:30:57.342-08:00Iraq whistleblower Dr Kelly WAS murdered to silence him, says MP By FIONA BARTON19th October 2007 Weapons expert Dr David Kelly was assassinated, an MP claims today. Campaigning politician Norman Baker believes Dr Kelly, who exposed the Government's "sexed-up" Iraq dossier, was killed to stop him making further revelations about the lies that took Britain to war. He says the murderers may have Rowena Thursbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00444270594885298483noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30980908.post-12940054032480021662007-09-05T04:22:00.000-07:002008-12-09T05:30:57.455-08:00NEW BOOK:The Strange Death of David Kelly by Norman Baker MPGuaranteed to a be a sensational book... Norman Baker has been researching the book for over a year, and has a mass of new material, much of which has never been revealed before. The high-profile death of David Kelly is regarded by many as suspicious, and the events surrounding it as 'unfinished business'. Norman Baker has carried out Rowena Thursbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00444270594885298483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30980908.post-62130493921093185562007-04-14T02:05:00.000-07:002007-04-14T02:27:41.818-07:00Norman Baker's presentation:THE STRANGE DEATH OF DR DAVID KELLYNorman Baker's presentation 'The Strange Death of Dr David Kelly' in Lewes, 11th April 2007, was extraordinarily successful. The All Saints Centre in Lewes was full, the atmosphere was electric, and Norman gave an excellent lecture - clear, unsensationalised and pragmatic, sticking resolutely to facts and making a virtually unarguableRowena Thursbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00444270594885298483noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30980908.post-56489794814484859332007-04-13T16:28:00.000-07:002008-12-09T05:30:57.632-08:00 Murder theory that just won't go awayThe greatest British conspiracy theory of the modern age was unveiled this week. Lewes MP Norman Baker set out in detail for the first time why he believes the secret service murdered the Government scientist Dr David Kelly. MILES GODFREY and KATYA MIRA report on a one-man crusade for the truth which has catapulted an unassuming Parliamentarian into the Rowena Thursbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00444270594885298483noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30980908.post-26147627034877377402007-04-06T02:36:00.000-07:002007-04-06T03:15:34.999-07:00THANKS FOR YOUR E-MAILS....Many thanks to all the people who wrote to me after watching the BBCs's documentary on Dr Kelly on 25 February. The programme-makers were faced with a difficult task, as they were refused interviews by politicians, police, the official forensics team, Dr Kelly's friends and family. Despite this massive stone-wall, the programme was slickly-presented, and succeeded in Rowena Thursbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00444270594885298483noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30980908.post-65708985772460813372007-04-02T14:46:00.000-07:002008-12-09T05:30:57.811-08:00 NORMAN BAKER: "The Strange Death of Dr Kelly"Talk at 7.45 pm on Wednesday 11th AprilAll Saints Centre, Friars Walk, Lewes, East SussexNext week, on April 11th, Norman Baker MP will be presenting his lecture 'The Strange Death of Dr David Kelly' for Changing Times, challenging the official story surrounding the alleged suicide of the UN weapons inspector in 2003. ANDY THOMAS, Changing Times Rowena Thursbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00444270594885298483noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30980908.post-2472003783226628212007-03-09T13:14:00.000-08:002007-03-09T13:25:16.508-08:00INFORMATION REQUIREDWould the person who heard from 'a reliable source' that a colleague of Dr Kelly's was sectioned under the mental health act, please contact me: RowenaThursby@onetel.com Rowena Thursbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00444270594885298483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30980908.post-66574917384911083782007-02-27T12:23:00.000-08:002008-12-09T05:30:57.957-08:00BBC2'S THE CONSPIRACY FILES: Dr David KellyThe full programme can now be viewed here.Rowena Thursbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00444270594885298483noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30980908.post-23452192935307353612007-02-27T08:51:00.000-08:002007-02-27T09:01:55.554-08:00LISTEN TO NORMAN BAKER'S LATEST INTERVIEWGMTV, Sunday 25 February 2007Try these 3 different locations until you find one that works... here, here and here.Rowena Thursbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00444270594885298483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30980908.post-21720122932465509872007-02-27T02:09:00.000-08:002007-02-27T09:03:25.290-08:00COMMENTS ON BBC2'S "THE CONSPIRACY FILES" I have received dozens of thoughtful responses to the programme examining Dr Kelly's death, and will try to answer them over the next week. Answers will be published here to the points that tend to be repeated - for instance, the pads found stuck to Dr Kelly's upper body are not significant because they were placed and left there by the paramedics when Rowena Thursbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00444270594885298483noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30980908.post-24473189108757717872007-02-25T08:52:00.000-08:002008-12-09T05:30:58.085-08:00KELLY DEATH NOT SUICIDE, SAYS MP Sunday 25 FebruaryCONSPIRACY FILES 9pm on BBC Two See programme preview HERE An MP investigating the death of Dr David Kelly says he is convinced the weapons scientist did not kill himself. Norman Baker tells BBC Two's The Conspiracy Files he has reached the conclusion Dr Kelly's life was "deliberately taken by others".Mr Baker has also obtained letters Rowena Thursbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00444270594885298483noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30980908.post-14873207821194945832007-02-22T13:09:00.000-08:002008-12-09T05:30:58.501-08:00 MP NORMAN BAKER IS TO BE INTERVIEWED ON THE INVESTIGATION INTODR DAVID KELLY'S DEATH - "THE SUNDAY PROGRAMME", 6AM SUNDAY 25 FEBRUARY...ALSO, SAME DAY, BBC2'S "THE CONSPIRACY FILES" - DR DAVID KELLY- 9PM. Rowena Thursbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00444270594885298483noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30980908.post-46332908039327291952007-02-16T04:58:00.000-08:002008-12-09T05:30:58.708-08:00One in four doubt David Kelly killed himself[23% 'believe he didn't' and 39% 'don't know' - so actually, fewer than 40% think he committed suicide]NEARLY a quarter of all people questioned in a BBC poll do not believe former Government weapons inspector Dr David Kelly killed himself.The poll for the corporation found that 23% of people believed Dr Kelly didn't commit suicide, while 39% believed Rowena Thursbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00444270594885298483noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30980908.post-57235951036706793002007-02-12T06:02:00.000-08:002008-12-09T05:30:58.874-08:00HUTTON LEFT IN DARK AS CORONER CONTINUES KELLY INQUEST It's the sizzling summer of 2003. Two days after his traumatic appearance before the Foreign Affairs Committee, weapons inspector David Kelly is found dead on Harrowdown Hill. The coroner begins his inquest, but on 24 July Lord Hutton takes over as the inquest is subsumed into an inquiry. Seemed all very right and proper, except that an Rowena Thursbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00444270594885298483noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30980908.post-74782380875215966122007-02-11T05:05:00.000-08:002008-12-09T05:30:59.321-08:00At 9pm on SUNDAY 25 FEBRUARY, BBC2's "THE CONSPIRACY FILES" looks at evidence which casts doubt on the government's official line regarding Dr David Kelly's death: 'We explore the questions remaining following the death of the weapons inspector.' Rowena Thursbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00444270594885298483noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30980908.post-44621309348457216152007-01-29T07:49:00.001-08:002008-12-09T05:31:01.380-08:00MASTER LIST OF DEAD SCIENTISTSThis list runs from 1994 to 2005. It offers useful direct links to information about each individual death together with photographs of each of the dead scientists. Steve Quayle also has a good illustrated list dating from 1994 - 2006. The number of scientists who've met sudden death in recent years is now up to 88 according to this updated list. Dr Paul Norman, Rowena Thursbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00444270594885298483noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30980908.post-82172945697351070622007-01-27T04:03:00.000-08:002007-01-27T06:45:22.013-08:00The material of Gordon Thomas, uncorroborated and unreferenced, has to be viewed with some scepticism. However, skipping over his obvious propagandising re the Chinese, Russians, Syrians, Iranians, and North Koreans, (the UK and US are always pristine of course), these two articles - most recent first - are certainly interesting, and may, in part, be accurate.MICROBIOLOGISTS WITH LINK TO Rowena Thursbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00444270594885298483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30980908.post-32581653544061426562007-01-26T12:48:00.000-08:002007-06-17T05:56:34.015-07:00THE CORONER & DAVID KELLY by Renan TalievaOn 16 March 2004, Oxfordshire coroner Nicholas Gardiner announced that he would not reopen the inquest into scientist David Kelly's death.Citing the absence of fresh evidence or exceptional circumstances to justify reconvening the inquest, he concurred "that the Lord Chancellor's belief in the adequacy of the inquiry was well founded" [1] and declared Rowena Thursbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00444270594885298483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30980908.post-26111559587627315002007-01-26T08:52:00.000-08:002007-01-27T06:57:07.673-08:00DEAD SCIENTISTS BLOGSPOT As you may know, I started writing about Dr Kelly's death on the Dead Scientists blogspot. My intention originally was to to place Dr Kelly's death in the context of the many bizarre and sudden deaths of dozens of microbiologists across the world. However I became engrossed in investigating the detail of Dr Kelly's death, so this didn't happen. However if you want to Rowena Thursbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00444270594885298483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30980908.post-1165708728132946602006-12-09T15:56:00.000-08:002007-01-06T17:13:26.193-08:00 Promotions, pay rises honours - how the key players in the Kelly scandal were rewarded by Jonathan Oliver, Mail on SundayThe politicians and officials at the heart of the David Kelly scandal have been showered with honours, promotions or lucrative retirement jobs in the three years since the scientist's death.While the Kelly family continue to mourn quietly in private, The Mail on Sunday today Rowena Thursbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00444270594885298483noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30980908.post-1165676628127988392006-12-09T07:00:00.000-08:002006-12-09T09:41:36.276-08:00AN ARTICLE 'OF A POLITICAL NATURE' ARISING OUT NORMAN BAKER'S INVESTIGATIONS WILL BE PUBLISHED IN THE "MAIL ON SUNDAY" ON SUNDAY 10 DECEMBER........Rowena Thursbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00444270594885298483noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30980908.post-1165676357576124972006-12-09T06:48:00.000-08:002006-12-09T06:59:17.600-08:00 APPEAL FOR LOCAL INFORMATION....The investigation into Dr Kelly's death has reached a critical stage. This opportunity will not come again. Now is the time to come forward with potential leads. A person or persons living in Dr Kelly's locality (Southmoor/Longworth, Oxon) have left messages here (see below) anonymously. Please would anyone with local (or any other useful) information write, in Rowena Thursbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00444270594885298483noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30980908.post-1160488332987426682006-10-10T06:30:00.000-07:002007-01-03T14:33:50.863-08:00British diplomat David Broucher describes to the Hutton Inquiry a meeting he had with David Kelly in February 2003. An audible gasp goes up when he recalls how the government scientist apparently predicted his own suicide. But evidence subsequently unearthed by Kelly's daughter, shows their one and only meeting actually took place in February 2002 - a whole year earlier. It would have made Rowena Thursbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00444270594885298483noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30980908.post-1158436413476533042006-09-16T12:13:00.000-07:002006-12-10T14:06:43.633-08:00UNCOVERING THE TRUTH ABOUT DR DAVID KELLY’S DEATH The Kelly Investigation Group (KIG) is a loose affiliation of professionals and laypeople from all walks of life; it includes nine doctors, four of them surgeons, and a QC. Medical and legal expertise has ensured our objections to the the official line on Dr David Kelly’s death are taken seriously by the media and public, even if the authorities Rowena Thursbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00444270594885298483noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30980908.post-1157027557462276572006-08-31T05:31:00.000-07:002006-08-31T14:48:48.966-07:00 August 31, 2006New weapons cover-up revealed... It has been revealed today that weapons inspector and former senior Australian diplomat Dr John Gee, resigned from the Iraq Survey Group in 2004, warning in a six-page letter to foreign minister Alexander Downer that he had no faith in the integrity of the weapons searching process (see below). The Iraq Survey Group's activities were, in his view, Rowena Thursbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00444270594885298483noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30980908.post-1156780153315375192006-08-28T08:18:00.000-07:002007-01-05T15:07:49.660-08:00 WANTED: INSIDE INFORMATION ON DR KELLY'S DEATHInterest in Dr Kelly's death remains high. People want to know if in the same way 'intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy' , this troublesome scientist's demise was fixed according to the government's wishes. After hundreds of hours spent analysing evidence given to the Hutton Inquiry and questioning witnesses, the Kelly Rowena Thursbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00444270594885298483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30980908.post-1155733564002091582006-08-16T05:18:00.000-07:002006-09-19T05:54:10.176-07:00 Is Gilligan afraid of the truth?By Rowena Thursby, Kelly Investigation GroupYou would think a journalist whose BBC career was ruined by the death of Dr Kelly would be terrier-like in his determination to get at the truth. Not so Andrew Gilligan. Baker and the conspiracy theories are wrong' he states in his 24 July 'Evening Standard' article ‘Those who say Kelly was murdered are so wrong‘. But asRowena Thursbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00444270594885298483noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30980908.post-1155583076566118312006-08-14T12:12:00.000-07:002006-12-27T02:16:56.116-08:00RESPONSE TO ANDREW GILLIGANLETTER TO EVENING STANDARD14 August 2006Dear SirYou would think a journalist who lost his BBC career over the death of Dr Kelly, would be fascinated by medical evidence suggesting the government scientist’s death was not suicide. Not so Andrew Gilligan. Rather than study the medical doubts in depth, he focuses on the dismissive comments of one forensic scientist with noRowena Thursbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00444270594885298483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30980908.post-1155207353291740762006-08-10T03:55:00.000-07:002006-10-20T10:49:07.890-07:00 BEWARE THIS MP'S 'DOSSIER'by Stotty [Richard Stott, Editor of Sunday Mirror, early 90s]Sunday Mirror30 July 2006IT 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 Rowena Thursbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00444270594885298483noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30980908.post-1154712897293196132006-08-04T10:27:00.000-07:002006-09-18T21:14:00.106-07:00 Those who say David was murdered are so wrongby Andrew GilliganThe Evening Standard 24 July 2006An MP has produced a dossier that claims to show the death of Dr David Kelly was not suicide. But the man at the heart of the story disagrees.I STILL remember, of course, how I heard about David Kelly's death. It started with a phone call, fairly early in the morning, from my friend Mick Smith, then Rowena Thursbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00444270594885298483noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30980908.post-1154473824411320842006-08-01T15:59:00.000-07:002006-08-10T03:54:16.456-07:00Dr Kelly: The questions that just won't go awayby Simon Edge31 July 2006The Daily ExpressThree years after the apparent suicide of the weapons expert who blew the whistle on the 'dodgy dossier' that took us into the Iraq War, we reveal how the Government still avoids answering crucial points about his deathIT WAS the late summer of 2003 and all eyes were on the Royal Courts of Justice in central Rowena Thursbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00444270594885298483noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30980908.post-1153943455463402132006-07-26T12:45:00.000-07:002006-07-27T04:24:36.876-07:00A "limited hangout" is used by Intelligence Organizations when a clandestine operation goes bad; or, a phoney cover story blows up. When discovered the Intelligence Organization volunteers some of the truth while still managing to withhold key and damaging facts in the case. The public is so intrigued by the new information it doesn't pursue the matter further. The new disclosures are sensationalRowena Thursbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00444270594885298483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30980908.post-1153869232758814932006-07-25T16:13:00.000-07:002006-07-26T09:03:58.100-07:00THE FORENSIC TESTIMONY: HIDDEN MESSAGES? E-mail from a highly qualified UK pathologist (bold/coloured type from the author for emphasis):I would like to point out three responses by forensic pathologist Dr Nicholas Hunt to questions from Lord Hutton, (Hutton Report, pp 91-92) Hunt's first response is quoted thus - "There is no positive pathological evidence that this man had been subjected to a Rowena Thursbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00444270594885298483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30980908.post-1153755549547133402006-07-24T08:28:00.000-07:002006-07-24T15:50:28.296-07:00Will we ever be told the truth about the death of Dr David Kelly? by MELANIE PHILLIPSDaily MailEveryone knows, don't they, that most untoward events generally have banal explanations such as muddle, incompetence or sheer blind chance.To believe otherwise is to run the risk of being branded a 'conspiracy theorist', a small step away from being lumped together with the kind of people who think thatRowena Thursbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00444270594885298483noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30980908.post-1153659659698666142006-07-23T05:59:00.000-07:002006-08-28T05:35:35.936-07:00I believe David Kelly did not commit suicide - and I will prove itBy Norman Baker MP The Mail on Sunday23 July 2006The weapons inspector’s death, three years ago this month, caused a firestorm of controversy. Now this MP – using parliamentary questions, privileged access and forensic analysis – has mounted his own investigation, and it casts a devastating new light on what really happened.Three Rowena Thursbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00444270594885298483noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30980908.post-1152988774506879062006-07-15T11:26:00.000-07:002006-07-16T06:26:19.223-07:00WHAT IS THE 'KELLY INVESTIGATION GROUP'?On 15th July 2003 British government scientist Dr David Kelly defended himself before a televised Foreign Affairs Committee against the charge that he had accused the British government of using false intelligence to justify invading Iraq. Three days later the world was stunned when he was found dead on Harrowdown Hill. A judgement of 'suicide', planted Rowena Thursbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00444270594885298483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30980908.post-1152822751916537192006-07-13T13:21:00.000-07:002006-07-17T05:47:58.940-07:00Thursday 13th July 2006WHY WAS THERE NO ARTERIAL RAIN ON DR KELLY'S CLOTHING?Consider the following and send me your comments.If you have medical training/experience all to the good but logic also welcome.Above is a 3"- 4 " Sandvik pruning knife like the one Dr Kelly is alleged to have used. To understand the scenario on Harrowdown Hill better one has to imagine how, if the official account of Rowena Thursbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00444270594885298483noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30980908.post-1152707340393165712006-07-12T05:19:00.000-07:002006-07-16T05:12:49.320-07:00COMING UP:A major new article on Norman Baker's concerns and findings to date will be in the 'Mail on Sunday' to coincide with the anniversary of Dr Kelly's death.Saturday, July 08, 2006VIDEO:NEW PRIVATE INVESTIGATION INTO DR DAVID KELLY'S DEATHNORMAN BAKER MP on GMTV'S 'THE SUNDAY PROGRAMME' 2 JULY 2006Liberal Democrat MP, Norman Baker has given up his seat on the front bench in a personal Rowena Thursbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00444270594885298483noreply@blogger.com1