Since Dr Kelly’s death in 2003, time has done nothing to dispel the cloud of suspicion that hangs over it.
The official explanation was that the distinguished weapons expert had taken his own life by overdosing on painkillers and cutting his left wrist, devastated after being unmasked as the source of the BBC's claim that the Government had 'sexed up' the case for the Iraq War.
But since Dr Kelly's death in 2003, time has done nothing to dispel the cloud of suspicion that hangs over the episode. The troubling questions surrounding it have only increased as the years have passed.
Successive governments have refused to allow a full coroner's inquest to be held, fuelling the sense of a cover-up.
I have spent years examining the case and, like some surgeons, barristers, coroners and judges I know of, I cannot accept the official explanation that Dr Kelly took his own life.
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