The body in the woods.

Conspiracy theorists have had a field day over the death in 2003 of Dr David Kelly, who was reputedly the source of the BBC's claim that the dossier making a case for the invasion of Iraq had been "sexed up" in an attempt to make going to war more publicly acceptable. He was found in woodlands with a slashed wrist and having taken an overdose (though probably not a fatal one) of painkillers. There was no inquest, but an inquiry was ordered by the Government and this (the Hutton Inquiry) determined that he took his own life. Strangely Lord Hutton later ruled that all the evidence from the inquiry should remain secret for 70 years. Like I say, meat and drink for conspiracy theorists, and many of them have gone somewhat OTT, but there are a couple of points which I myself find strange and a little disturbing. Firstly Dr Kelly was not wearing gloves, and yet there were no fingerprints on the knife with which he supposedly cut his wrist, nor on the bottle containing some of the pills he had ingested. Secondly all the evidence is that he was a devoted family man, and yet he had made arrangements to meet his daughter that evening and it seems inconceivable that he would not have left some message of apology for her. There are calls for a proper inquest, which might help clear the air. Let's hope we get one