Dr David Kelly, the Government weapons inspector whose death in a wood in Oxfordshire in 2003 remains a mystery
The strange death of Dr David Kelly, the Government weapons inspector found in a wood in Oxfordshire, remains an enduring mystery.
Now former MP George Galloway has successfully crowd-funded more than £60,000 to make a film about the case. He has spent the past few months on his own investigation, called Killing Kelly, and tells me the project is close to completion.
'Among important contributions is one from Andrew Mackinlay, the former Labour MP, who has never discussed his role in the affair before,' says Galloway.
Kelly is believed to have committed suicide in 2003 after being revealed as the source for the claim that the government had 'sexed up' a dossier on WMDs to justify the war in Iraq.
Mackinlay questioned Kelly at a parliamentary select committee hearing which supposedly tipped him over the edge. 'I reckon you are chaff,' Mackinlay told Kelly a few days before he died. 'You have been thrown up to divert our probing. Have you ever felt like a fall guy? You have been set up, have you not?'
The 2003 tragedy led to the Hutton Inquiry, but for many people urgent questions about the murky episode remain.
George Galloway has successfully crowd-funded more than £60,000 to make a film about the death of Dr David Kelly in 2003
'We were filming on Harrowdown Hill recently,' says Galloway. 'It's the place where Dr Kelly's body was found.
'I'm not persuaded yet it's where he
