David Kelly (Weapons Expert)

David Christopher Kelly, CMG (14 May 1944 17 July 2003) was an employee of the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence (MoD), an expert in biological warfare and a former United Nations weapons inspector in Iraq. Kelly's discussion with BBC Radio4 Today Programme journalist Andrew Gilligan about the British government's dossier on weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in Iraq inadvertently caused a major political scandal. He was found dead days after appearing before the Parliamentary committee charged with investigating the scandal. Many people tried to distance themselves from his death, including the BBC and the MOD. Dr Kelly's family felt very unhappy with the way he had been treated. The Hutton Inquiry, a public inquiry into the circumstances surrounding his death, ruled that he had committed suicide, and that Kelly had not in fact said some of the things attributed to him by Gilligan. The following day, 28 January 2004, the entire front page of The Independent was covered with a single word in giant letters: "WHITEWASH".

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David Christopher Kelly, CMG (14 May 1944-17 July 2003) was an employee of the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence (MoD), an expert in biological warfare and a former United Nations weapons inspector in Iraq. Kelly's discussion with BBC Radio4 Today Programme journalist Andrew Gilligan about the British government's dossier on weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in Iraq inadvertently caused a major political scandal. He was found dead days after appearing before the Parliamentary committee charged with investigating the scandal. Many people tried to distance themselves from his death, including the BBC and the MOD. Dr Kelly's family felt very unhappy with the way he had been treated. The Hutton Inquiry, a public inquiry into the circumstances surrounding his death, ruled that he had committed suicide, and that Kelly had not in fact said some of the things attributed to him by Gilligan. The following day, 28 January 2004, the entire front page of The Independent was covered with a single word in giant letters: "WHITEWASH".