What was the name of the Government scientist at the centre of the controversy surrounding the so-called 'dodgy dossier' who was found dead in an Oxfordshire wood in July 2003?
"The Strange Death of David Kelly The Strange Death of David Kelly is a 2007 book by British politician Norman Baker. The book investigates the death of David Kelly. Kelly was a British scientist and authority on biological warfare, employed by the Ministry of Defence and formerly a United Nations weapons inspector in Iraq. He had an off-record discussion with a BBC journalist concerning a British government dossier about Weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, which was cited by the journalist. Kelly's name became subsequently known and he was aggressively questioned by a Parliamentary committee. He was found dead two"
"Defence Intelligence Staff, specialising in counter-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. He was credited for being sceptical of the WMD claims regarding Iraq. Having spent most of his career in the deliberately low-profile world of nuclear energy and then in intelligence work, he came to public notice in the summer of 2003 when, shortly after his retirement from the MoD, he gave evidence to the Hutton Inquiry, which was set up following the death of Dr David Kelly to investigate allegations that the so-called ""dodgy dossier"" of material was published by the government of Tony Blair in order to justify"
"Hutton Inquiry The Hutton Inquiry was a 2003 judicial inquiry in the UK chaired by Lord Hutton, who was appointed by the Labour government to investigate the circumstances surrounding the death of David Kelly, a biological warfare expert and former UN weapons inspector in Iraq. On 18 July 2003, Kelly, an employee of the Ministry of Defence, was found dead after he had been named as the source of quotations used by BBC journalist Andrew Gilligan. These quotations had formed the basis of media reports claiming that the government had knowingly ""sexed up"" the ""September Dossier"", a report into Iraq"
"Government ""probably knew"" that one of the main claims in its dossier ""was wrong"". Gilligan's anonymous source for the claim was Dr David Kelly, a key adviser on biological weapons who had worked in Iraq – though it was never established whether Dr Kelly had actually used the words Gilligan attributed to him. In the furore that followed Gilligan's report, David Kelly's name became public and he was forced to appear before the Foreign Affairs Select Committee. Shortly afterward he was found dead having presumably committed suicide. In the ensuing public inquiry (the Hutton Inquiry), which reported in January 2004,"
"to establish the truth behind the death in 2003 of David Kelly, an expert in biological warfare employed by the Ministry of Defence and a former United Nations weapons inspector in Iraq. Kelly's discussion with BBC ""Today"" programme journalist Andrew Gilligan about the British government's dossier on weapon of mass destruction (WMD) in Iraq inadvertently caused a major political scandal. Kelly had been found dead days after appearing before the Parliamentary committee investigating the scandal. The Hutton Inquiry, a public inquiry into the circumstances surrounding his death, ruled that he had committed suicide and that Kelly had not in fact"
"Iraq Dossier Iraq – Its Infrastructure of Concealment, Deception and Intimidation (more commonly known as the Iraq Dossier, the February Dossier or the Dodgy Dossier) was a 2003 briefing document for the British prime minister Tony Blair's Labour Party government. It was issued to journalists on 3 February 2003 by Alastair Campbell, Blair's Director of Communications and Strategy, and concerned Iraq and weapons of mass destruction. Together with the earlier ""September Dossier"", these documents were ultimately used by the government to justify its involvement in the 2003 invasion of Iraq. The term ""Dodgy Dossier"" was first coined by online polemical"
"due process of the law that the derailing of the inquest by Lord Falconer on August 13, 2003 constituted."" He said that the doctors would seek a judicial review of the decision not to pursue an inquest. Hutton Inquiry The Hutton Inquiry was a 2003 judicial inquiry in the UK chaired by Lord Hutton, who was appointed by the Labour government to investigate the circumstances surrounding the death of David Kelly, a biological warfare expert and former UN weapons inspector in Iraq. On 18 July 2003, Kelly, an employee of the Ministry of Defence, was found dead after he had"
"attacks. The normally secretive intelligence services were thrust into the public gaze in the Summer of 2003 after the death of the eminent government weapons expert, Dr David Kelly. Kelly had been found dead in the Oxfordshire countryside near his home, after being exposed as the source of allegations that the government had ""sexed-up"" intelligence regarding existence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq prior to the 2003 invasion of Iraq. The ""classic case"" was the claim that Iraq could launch Weapons of Mass Destruction ""within 45 minutes of an order to do so""—Dr Kelly had privately dismissed this as"
"about to challenge Lord Brittan about when he knew about child sex abuse...It wouldn't be a wise move...It was all put to bed a long time ago."" The minister also warned Danczuk that he could be responsible for Brittan's death. The Labour MP Tom Watson asked the Home Office in February 2013 for Dickens' dossier. A Home Office review in 2013 concluded that any information requiring investigation was referred to the police but revealed that Mr Dickens' dossier was ""not retained"". The missing dossier has been linked with ongoing investigations into the Elm Guest House child abuse scandal. Hayman was"
"2003 British intelligence dossier, released to the public by Prime Minister Tony Blair, on Iraq's biological, chemical and nuclear capability. The dossier alleged that Taha had played a leading role in the manufacture of anthrax and other biological agents. It was this dossier that triggered the chain of events that led to the death of British UN weapons inspector David Kelly, who was accused of telling a BBC reporter that some of the intelligence had been manipulated. Dr. Kelly, as an UNSCOM weapons inspector visiting Iraq on the occasions described below, had interrogated Dr. Taha so pitilessly that she was"
"Ministry of Defence scientist, Dr David Kelly, was named as the alleged source of the news item, which led to official sources suggesting that Dr Kelly was not a credible source. The subsequent suicide of Dr Kelly resulted in an escalation of the conflict between the government and the BBC, during which both sides received severe criticism for their roles in the matter. The publication in January 2004 of the ""Hutton Report"" into Dr Kelly's death was extremely critical of Andrew Gilligan, and of the corporation's management processes and standards of journalism. In the aftermath, both the chairman of the"
"Among the items in the dossier was a recently received intelligence report that ""the Iraqi military are able to deploy chemical or biological weapons within 45 minutes of an order to do so"". A further briefing paper on Iraq's alleged WMDs was issued to journalists in February 2003. This document was discovered to have taken a large part of its text without attribution from a PhD thesis available on the internet. Where the thesis hypothesised about possible WMDs, the Downing Street version presented the ideas as fact. The document subsequently became known as the ""Dodgy Dossier"". 46,000 British troops, one-third"
"removed from number10.gov.uk website) Other versions of the dossier are available, such as: Other links: Iraq Dossier Iraq – Its Infrastructure of Concealment, Deception and Intimidation (more commonly known as the Iraq Dossier, the February Dossier or the Dodgy Dossier) was a 2003 briefing document for the British prime minister Tony Blair's Labour Party government. It was issued to journalists on 3 February 2003 by Alastair Campbell, Blair's Director of Communications and Strategy, and concerned Iraq and weapons of mass destruction. Together with the earlier ""September Dossier"", these documents were ultimately used by the government to justify its involvement in"
"Unwin, with whom he had four daughters and two sons. They married one year before his death. He died of a brain tumour on 12 November 2006 on his farm in Elworthy, West Somerset. His anti-establishment views, his doggedness, and his willingness to educate himself brought him some high-level contacts in the UK, including the Prince of Wales and Lord King, the former defence secretary, who regarded Purdey's work as a ""classic piece of scientific investigation."" It was King who, in April 1993, formally alerted the Ministry of Agriculture to Purdey's research, after Purdey forwarded King a letter from Professor"
"for alteration of the dossier. The government angrily denounced the reports and accused the corporation of poor journalism. In subsequent weeks the corporation stood by the report, saying that it had a reliable source. Following intense media speculation, Kelly was finally named in the press as the source for Gilligan's story on 9 July. Kelly committed suicide in a field close to his home on 17 July. An inquiry was announced by the British government the following day. The inquiry was to investigate ""the circumstances surrounding the death of Dr Kelly"". The inquiry opened on 1 August. Hearings began on"
"by the Ministry of Defence (MoD). This resulted in the release of the file on the famous Rendlesham Forest UFO incident in Suffolk, the MoD’s report by the Flying Saucer Working Party used to brief Winston Churchill and, in 2006, the DIS report ""UAPs in the UK Air Defence Region"" (also known as the Condign report). Between 2008 and 2013 Clarke acted as the media consultant and spokesperson for the Open Government project that oversaw the transfer of 210 public records on UFOs from the Ministry of Defence to The National Archives. The project resulted in the public release of"
"press as the source for Gilligan's story on 9 July 2003. Kelly was found dead, by suicide, in a field close to his home early on 18 July. An inquiry led by Lord Hutton was announced by the British government the following day to investigate the circumstances leading to Kelly's death, concluding that ""Dr. Kelly took his own life."" In his report on 28 January 2004, Lord Hutton concluded that Gilligan's original accusation was ""unfounded"" and the BBC's editorial and management processes were ""defective"". In particular, it specifically criticised the chain of management that caused the BBC to defend its"
"David Kelly (weapons expert) David Christopher Kelly (14 May 1944 – 17 July 2003) was a Welsh scientist and authority on biological warfare, employed by the British Ministry of Defence, and formerly a weapons inspector with the United Nations Special Commission in Iraq. He came to public attention in July 2003 when an unauthorised discussion he had off the record with BBC journalist Andrew Gilligan about the UK Government's dossier on weapons of mass destruction in Iraq was cited by Gilligan and led to a major controversy. Kelly's name became known to the media as Gilligan's source and he was"
"at the centre of a row between Downing Street and the BBC. On 29 May 2003, BBC defence correspondent Andrew Gilligan filed a report for BBC Radio 4's ""Today"" programme in which he stated that an unnamed source – a senior British official – had told him that the September Dossier had been ""sexed up"", and that the intelligence agencies were concerned about some ""dubious"" information contained within it – specifically the claim that Saddam Hussein could deploy weapons of mass destruction within 45 minutes of an order to use them. On 1 June, Gilligan expanded upon that claim in"
"fate of the dossier. Prime Minister David Cameron asked the Home Office Permanent Secretary to investigate what had happened to the missing dossier. Danczuk responded that another internal inquiry was merely trying to limit damage, and that a public inquiry was necessary to retain public confidence. The missing dossier has been linked with ongoing investigations into the Elm Guest House child abuse scandal. In 2015, a file from 1981 was released into the National Archives titled ""SECURITY. Sir Peter Hayman: allegations against former public official of unnatural sexual proclivities; security aspects"", showing that the then-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher had been"
"Ashfield District Council looked into a variety of possible causes, including contaminated water supplies, food poisoning, radio waves, and crop spraying of the nearby fields. The use of pesticides became the favoured explanation, with a 2003 episode of the BBC news and current affairs programme ""Inside Out"" revealing the local use of the pesticide tridemorph. Banned by the British government in 2000, tridemorph was discovered to be a harmful substance described by the World Health Organization (WHO) as ""moderately hazardous"". However, these investigations took place over 20 years after the event and disagree with the official findings. The official inquiry"
"thesis available on the internet. Where the thesis hypothesised about possible WMDs, the Downing Street version presented the ideas as fact. The document subsequently became known as the ""Dodgy Dossier"". 46,000 British troops, one-third of the total strength of the British Army (land forces), were deployed to assist with the invasion of Iraq. When after the war, no Weapons of Mass Destruction were found in Iraq, the two dossiers, together with Blair's other pre-war statements, became an issue of considerable controversy. Many Labour Party members, including a number who had supported the war, were among the critics. Successive independent inquiries"
"on the database. The Conservative Party objected to the database on the grounds that Parliament had not been given the opportunity to vote on it. Damian Green, former Tory home affairs spokesman, issued a press release in January 2006 stating: ""We do have concerns about the Government including on the database the DNA and fingerprints of completely innocent people... If the Government wants a database which has the details of everyone, not just criminals, they should be honest about it and not construct it by stealth."" Mr Green had his own DNA profile on the database for a time having"
"techniques used were ""inhuman and degrading"" and breached the European Convention on Human Rights, but did not amount to ""torture"". The court also found that the practice of internment in Northern Ireland had not breached the Convention. He sentenced 10 men to 1,001 years in prison on the word of ""supergrass"" informer Robert Quigley, who was granted immunity in 1984. Lord Hutton was appointed by the Blair government to chair the inquiry on the circumstances surrounding the death of scientist David Kelly. The inquiry commenced on 11 August 2003. Many observers were surprised when he delivered his report on 28"
"Westminster paedophile dossier A dossier on paedophiles allegedly associated with the British government was assembled by the British Member of Parliament Geoffrey Dickens, who handed it to the then-Home Secretary, Leon Brittan, in 1984. The whereabouts of the dossier is unknown, along with other files on organised child abuse that had been held by the Home Office. In 2013, the Home Office stated that all relevant information had been passed to the police, and that Dickens' dossier had not been retained. It was later disclosed that 114 documents concerning child abuse allegations were missing. In July 2014, the Labour Party"
"1995), which could identify several historic child sex abusers. The Home Office stated the dossier had not been retained in their files. Former Director of Public Prosecutions Lord Macdonald said the circumstances in which the dossier had gone missing were alarming, and recommended an inquiry into its fate. Prime Minister David Cameron subsequently asked the Home Office Permanent Secretary to investigate what happened to the missing dossier. Danczuk responded that another internal inquiry was merely trying to limit damage, and that a public inquiry was necessary to regain public confidence. Also in July 2014, Danczuk wrote to the Director of"
"(for example) reasonably believed that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction which might be launched 45 minutes after an order to do so, and that the government of Iraq were likely to use those weapons. Although a dossier published by the British Government said that they did (the so-called ""dodgy dossier"" examined during the Hutton Inquiry), it later turned out that they did not, and, moreover, the basis of the stated belief to the contrary has been challenged. This, too, therefore, remains a highly controversial question. Greenwood has also acted as counsel for the government of the United Kingdom in"
"the contentions he makes in his report are that the government ""ordered (the September Dossier, a British Government dossier on WMD) to be sexed up, to be made more exciting, and ordered more facts to be...discovered."" The broadcast is not repeated. On May 27, 2003, a secret Defense Intelligence Agency fact-finding mission in Iraq reported unanimously to intelligence officials in Washington that two trailers captured in Iraq by Kurdish troops ""had nothing to do with biological weapons."" The trailers had been a key part of the argument for the 2003 invasion; Secretary of State Colin Powell had told the United"
"other sources. Whether or not the September Dossier was inconsistent with the original intelligence, it was altered in ways that made it inconsistent with itself. The dossier became a point of amusement in British politics. In a Questions to the Prime Minister conflict, Michael Howard (then leader of Her Majesty's Most Loyal Opposition), informed Blair, ""I have got a great big dossier on his past and I haven't even had to sex it up."" The term ""Dodgy Dossier"" was used again in January 2017, in reference to the ""Steele Dossier"" on a supposed sex scandal involving Donald Trump. (document was"
"London flat and constituency home were both broken into but nothing was taken, presumably in a search for documents. The Labour MP Tom Watson asked the Home Office in February 2013 for Dickens' dossier. A Home Office review in 2013 concluded that any information requiring investigation was referred to the police but revealed that Mr Dickens' dossier was ""not retained"". After the issue had been raised again by Labour MP Simon Danczuk in July 2014, former Director of Public Prosecutions, Lord Macdonald, said the circumstances in which the dossier had gone missing were alarming and recommended an inquiry into the"
"and sentenced to life imprisonment. Victoria's death led to a public inquiry, launched on 31 May 2001 and chaired by Herbert Laming, which investigated the role of the agencies involved in her care. The report, published on 28 January 2003, found that the agencies involved in her care failed to protect her and that on at least 12 occasions, workers involved in her case could have prevented her death. The Laming report led to, amongst other things, the creation of the Every Child Matters programme, which consists of three green papers: ""Every Child Matters"", published in September 2003; ""Every Child"
"for the committee to consider. The JIC played a controversial role in compiling a dossier in which the UK government highlighted the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction in the run up to the Iraq War. There were allegations that the dossier was ""sexed up"" prior to publication in order to bolster the case for military action. Evidence that the wording of the dossier was ""strengthened"" was presented to the Hutton Inquiry, a judicial review set up to investigate the circumstances leading up to the death of an eminent government weapons expert, David Kelly, who had criticised the"
"in the report's appendix. This raised concern about the diocese's willingness to disclose relevant files. An initial report was made to the government in 2002 by George Bermingham SC. A non-statutory private inquiry was then established in March 2003 by Micheál Martin as Minister for Health and Children, comprising three persons: Francis Murphy, a retired Supreme Court Judge; Dr Helen Buckley, a sociology lecturer at Trinity College Dublin; and Dr Laraine Joyce of the office of health management, a part of the Ministry for Health and Children. The report was published in October 2005, noting the anonymity of victims and"