Did the Blair Government have a hand in removing the troublesome scientist Dr David Kelly.

The revamped Morning Star leads with an interesting story today, Iraq WMD expert was assassinated. According to the Star, thirteen doctors have demanded a fresh inquiry into the scientist David Kelly’s death near his Oxfordshire home in 2003. Dr Kelly, a Ministry of Defense biological warfare expert who questioned the government's justification for invading Iraq, was found dead near woodland a short distance from his home soon after he was exposed as the source for a critical BBC report on the war on Iraq in 2003.

After Mr Kelly’s death, the Blair government did all it could to pervert the due process of the law, and up until this day have succeeded in kicking David Kelly’s death into the long grass. First by asking Lord Hutton to conduct an inquiry, * which had no legal status and then acting covertly to place Kelly’s Inquest on the back burner. I find it very interesting that a coroner’s inquest into Mr Kelly's death has never taken place, for in the north of Ireland this practice was used time and again whenever the UK ‘security forces’ were involved in a contentious death.

A group of thirteen doctors have now mounted a legal challenge to over turn Hutton’s report, as they are skeptical about whether Mr Kelly took his own life. David Halpin, a retired orthopedic and trauma surgery consultant and spokesperson for the group of doctors, said it is extremely rare for coroners inquest not to be held and dismissed Hutton’s explanation of how Kelly took his own live. Which involved the scientist cutting his left wrist with a pen knife and bleeding to death. Halpin claimed such an explanation was inadequate; and the 13 specialist have compiled a medical dossier that rejects such a conclusion. He went on to say,

"Such a cut to the ulnar artery, which is small and difficult to access, could not have caused death. The bleeding from Dr Kelly's wrist is unlikely to have been so voluminous and rapid that it was the cause of death,"

"There is evidence of a cover-up and I think it is highly likely that Dr Kelly was assassinated."

The full Morning Star article can be read here.

* Hutton was a man who is known to have had connections to the UK security service and according to press reports is a close friend of Blair.