An inconvenient death : how the establishment covered up the David Kelly affair / Miles Goslett.
By: Goslett, Miles [author.]
.Publisher: London : Head of Zeus, 2019Description: xix, 373 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour).Content type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781788543118.Subject(s): Kelly, David -2003 -- Death and burial | Blair, Tony, 1953- | Hutton, James Brian Edward, Baron Hutton Report of the inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death of Dr David Kelly C.M.G. Baron Hutton | Weapons of mass destruction -- Iraq | Iraq War, 2003-2011 | Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1997-2010DDC classification: 941.08611 Summary: "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." -- Taken from book-cover.
| Item type | Current library | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Book | House of Lords Library - Palace Dewey | 941.08611 GOS (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 017211 |
"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." -- Taken from book-cover.