Sunday, July 20, 2003
Weapons expert had slashed wrist
Police have confirmed that the expert at the centre of the Iraq dossier row bled to death from a cut to his wrist, as Tony Blair comes under increasing pressure over the affair.
Dr. David Kelly, 59, was the mole behind a BBC report that Downing Street communications director Alastair Campbell "sexed up" a dossier setting out the case for war.
A senior officer said a knife and a packet of painkillers had been found close to where his body was discovered in woodland near his home in Oxfordshire on Friday. [...]
Police have confirmed that the expert at the centre of the Iraq dossier row bled to death from a cut to his wrist, as Tony Blair comes under increasing pressure over the affair.
Dr. David Kelly, 59, was the mole behind a BBC report that Downing Street communications director Alastair Campbell "sexed up" a dossier setting out the case for war.
A senior officer said a knife and a packet of painkillers had been found close to where his body was discovered in woodland near his home in Oxfordshire on Friday. [...]