David Kelly evidence officially released online

Want any other documents? Wait 70 years...

Evidence relating to the death of Government weapons inspector David Kelly is to be kept secret for 70 years, it has been reported.

A highly unusual ruling by Lord Hutton, who chaired the inquiry into Dr Kelly's death, means medical records including the post-mortem report will remain classified until after all those with a direct interest in the case are dead, the Mail on Sunday reported.

And a 30-year secrecy order has been placed on written records provided to Lord Hutton's inquiry which were not produced in evidence.

The Ministry of Justice said decisions on the evidence were a matter for Lord Hutton. But Liberal Democrat MP Norman Baker, who has conducted his own investigations into Dr Kelly's death, described the order as "astonishing".

Dr Kelly's body was found in woods close to his Oxfordshire home in 2003, shortly after it was revealed that he was the source of a BBC report casting doubt on the Government's claim that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction capable of being fired within 45 minutes.

An inquest was suspended by then Lord Chancellor Lord Falconer, who ruled that Lord Hutton's inquiry could take its place. But in the event, the inquiry focused more on the question of how the BBC report came to be broadcast than on the medical explanation for Dr Kelly's death.

Lord Hutton's report in 2004 concluded that Dr Kelly killed himself by cutting an artery in his wrist. But the finding has been challenged by doctors who claim that the weapons inspector's stated injuries were not serious enough.

One of the doctors seeking a full inquest, former assistant coroner Michael Powers, told the Mail on Sunday he had seen a letter from the legal team of Oxfordshire County Council explaining the unusual restrictions placed by Lord Hutton on material relating to his inquiry.

The letter states: "Lord Hutton made a request for the records provided to the inquiry, not produced in evidence, to be closed for 30 years, and that medical (including post-mortem) reports and photographs be closed for 70 years."

Dr Powers asked: "Supposedly all evidence relevant to the cause of death has been heard in public at the time of Lord Hutton's inquiry. If these secret reports support the suicide finding, what could they contain that could be so sensitive?"

http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/uncyclopedia/images/thumb/1/19/Porpoise_blair_smile.jpg/180px-Porpoise_blair_smile.jpg

^i would tread on puppies to get a knife into this cunt^

thought you were rep-of-irish?

yep?

i know he's a cunt, but what's he done to you like? i wouldn't want to kill... your guy.

i dunno...
http://static.stuff.co.nz/1233108507/912/455912.jpg

i smell a hitchcock coming on.

i don't think you need to be a british subject to greatly desire the expiration of blair- the most cynical, self-serving, lying and downright nasty piece of work in the past twenty years of irish/uk/us politics.

does that make me weird?

darra maybe you should contribute to the arrest blair fund
http://www.arrestblair.org/

just tried starting a petition about this on http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/ fwiw

Thank you for creating your petition

It has been entered on our system and will now go to the Number 10 team for approval.

tum-ti-tum...

Wow, the petitions website is like Have You Say gone overground - "Ensure sterilisation is used on convicted criminals; In light of the case of 2 children viciously assaulting 2 children convicted criminals should not be allowed to procreate." Number of signatories: 1.

2 now.

(not really)

xxp i'm not on abuot arresting blair. is there a fund that can be channeled to a top-class hitman?

"Micr0chip all pead0philes" (googleproofing is mine, spelling is as is) - 2,165 sigs. Started by a 42-y-o who calls themselves uk_babyd0ll on myspace. THIS COUNTRY.

i've made a huge mistake

now you're one of them

hanging out with losers

We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to Ban Fallout Boy and Panic! At The Disco.

REJECTED: This petition has been rejected because:

* It was outside the remit or powers of the Prime Minister and Government

Must stop looking at these now.

what good is government, if it can't even control our DISCOS?

Who will mend breakdance britain?

i like the rejected 'make me a sandwich' one

stop turturing by microwave, electr0magnetic weapon M T4h4ni
Stopp torturing me by the electr0magnetic microwave weapon M T4h4ni
Stop electr0magnetic, micr0wave harressmant M T4h4ni

They should leave this guy alone imo.

i don't think you need to be a british subject to greatly desire the expiration of blair- the most cynical, self-serving, lying and downright nasty piece of work in the past twenty years of irish/uk/us politics.

Where does everyone get this bizarre concept that he had a choice re:Iraq war?

im pretty sure gwb would not have invaded us if he'd said no.

so uh he really did have a choice.

fuck that he had a choice regardless of what bush would have done.

my favourite story was the one with blair as some sort of idiot-paedophile who'd been caught using his credit card to buy child porn online (???) by the CIA or similar, and the whitehouse then blackmailed him into the war.

fuck that he had a choice regardless of what bush would have done.

"not have invaded us"

craven as it sounds, had bush held this over it then it would be fair to say blair didn't have a real choice. but bush didn't so blair did.

xp that story makes him look better than a popular PM who thought a war would be handy in terms of political advantage with the US

ok mayne, i missed the 'us'.

what claire short said about blair's almost messianic sense of conviction post-kosovo&sierra leone made the most sense of his actions of what I've heard, if he fooled ppl he fooled himself too.

Died 20 years ago this week :-(