David Kelly inquest may be reopened after method of suicide found "extremely unlikely"

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"The attorney general is considering re-opening the inquest into the death of government scientist David Kelly, it has emerged.

A spokesman for Dominic Grieve, who has the power to go to the high court and ask for a new inquest, said he was reviewing the case in light of fresh calls for the weapon inspector's death to be investigated.

"He remains concerned about this matter and is considering how to take it forward with his ministerial colleagues," said the spokesman.

The move comes after nine experts, including Michael Powers, a QC and former coroner, and Julian Blon, a professor of intensive care medicine, called for a full inquest into Kelly's death saying the official finding – haemorrhage from the severed artery – was "extremely unlikely".

"Insufficient blood would have been lost to threaten life," they wrote in a letter published in the Times.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/aug/13/david-kelly-death-inquest

There are more and more things that make people want to take a second look at this every time it comes up.

This man was very meek and mild-mannered, how did he build up the nerve to slash himself? In the ulnar artery? With him being one of the few recorded people to die by this particular method? And how did he get the clotting problem necessary to make his wound life threatening?

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

1. Hmmm...... nt

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2. Those Brits need to look forward, not backward.

After all, if David Kelly WAS murdered, that murder would have taken place in the past, making it practically irrelevant. Their time would be better utilized if they focused solely on prosecuting future crimes.

[ck4829]

4. If he was murdered, then doesn't that mean someone needs to answer for that?

[kath]

5. Nope - according to our fearless leader, investigating criminal acts is "looking backward" and is

not to be tolerated. People need to move on.

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7. Meh. I'm far more concerned with crimes that haven't happened yet.

Some people get hung up on the past. I look to the future. We need to prosecute future crimes to the full extent of the law. Unfortunately, if one of these crimes does actually occur before we can stop it, that means the crime will have taken place in the past. Making it all but unprosecutable.

[kath]

3. Yep- the official "story" on David Kelly's death is every bit as improbable as the story that Scar-

borough's intern/aide died by fainting and hitting her head on her desk. But that one will never be investigated any further.

[On the Road]

6. Wow Wow Wow

I thought that whole incident was dead and buried.

If the Brits are opening an inquiry, things could get very interesting. It looks very possible that he was murdered, but it might not have been by the British government. We would have to know the whole story to even know what's likely.