Attorney General calls for Kelly files Hutton locked up for 70 years

UK Attorney General, Dominic Grieve, has called for the files on the post-mortem carried out on Dr David Kelly. These papers were surreptitiously put on a 70 year lock-down by the Lord Hutton, at the end of the discredited public Inquiry he led into Dr Kelly’s death.

The Attorney General and his team are to read the papers, looking for, among other things, any discrepancy between the post-mortem findings and Lord Hutton’s conclusions on the cause of Dr Kelly’s death.

This process was, now famously, considered by Lord Falconer, Tony Blair’s chummily expedient old flat mate, over-promoted as Lord Chancellor, to be th equivalent of an inquest.

Whether or not there proves to be any such discrepancy, there remains the critical issue of the competence of the post-mortem itself.

Ever since the death of Dr Kelly, the probability of Lord Hutton’s controversial attribution of cause has been continually called into question by a growing volume of expert medical opinion.

This has been supported by evidence given by a colleague of Dr Kelly’s, Dr Mai Pedersen,  on relevant disabilities Dr Kelly was suffering at the time, making the specific suicide process declared by Hutton unlikely.

This one will run on but the Attorney General’s call to see the strangely classified papers is, at least temporarily, reassuring.