An Inconvenient Death : How the Establishment Covered Up the David Kelly Affair

A DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR. 'A compelling, authoritative insight into possibly the most controversial death in Britain this century' The Observer . 'Goslett's like Poirot; he asks questions... Spooky and scary' Evening Standard . 'Masterful... This book made me proud of my trade as a journalist' Daily Mail . 'This searing excavation of the mysterious death of Dr David Kelly is investigative journalism at its best. It is brave, relentless, dazzlingly revealing' Peter Oborne . In March 2003 British forces invaded Iraq after Tony Blair said the country could deploy weapons of mass destruction at 45 minutes' notice. A few months later, government scientist Dr David Kelly was unmasked by Blair's officials as the assumed source of a BBC news report challenging this claim. Within days, Dr Kelly was found dead in a wood near his home. Blair immediately convened the controversial Hutton Inquiry, which concluded Dr Kelly committed suicide. Yet key questions remain: could Dr Kelly really have taken his life in the manner declared? And why did Blair's government derail the coroner's inquest into Dr Kelly's death? In this meticulous account, award-winning journalist Miles Goslett shows why we should be sceptical of the official story of what happened in that desperate summer of 2003. The death of Dr David Kelly in 2003 remains one of the most mysterious episodes in recent British political history. This scrupulous scientist, an expert on weapons of mass destruction, was caught up in the rush to war in Iraq and by pressure of those around Tony Blair to provide evidence that Saddam Hussein was producing chemical weapons. Kelly seemed to have tipped into sudden depression when he was outed as a source by Andrew Gilligan and found himself in the harsh spotlight of political and media attention. But the circumstances of his death are replete with disquieting questions – every detail, from his motives to the method of his death, his body's discovery and the way in which the state investigated his demise, seems on close examination not to make sense. In this painstaking and levelheaded investigative book about Kelly's death, Miles Goslett shows why we should be deeply sceptical of the official narrative and examines the uses of intelligence and the... The examination of one of the most mysterious episodes in recent British political history by a renowned investigative journalist.