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Hello and welcome to this witness history podcast from the BBC World Service with me Rebecca

Keshby and today we revisit the sudden death of Dr David Kelly in July 2003.

He was Britain's leading weapons inspector who became embroiled in a bitter

spat between the government and the BBC over why Britain went to war in Iraq.

Tonight the scientist at the center of the row between the government and the BBC has been found dead. Dr David Kelly was one of the world's leading biological warfare experts.

The discovery of his body on a hillside in Oxfordshire,

just three days after giving evidence at a televised parliamentary hearing,

shocked the nation.

Tonight we have a profound personal tragedy wrapped up in serious criticism of the BBC,

the Foreign Affairs Select Committee, the Ministry of Defence and of the government as a whole.

The official explanation was that Dr Kelly deliberately took his own life, but such was the

melstrom of public debate at the time, so divided was the nation over the war in Iraq

that his sudden death sparked any number of conspiracy theories. While Dr

Kelly's widow accepted it was suicide, others were concerned that normal procedures following a sudden death were not followed by the authorities.

Among the critics were a group of medical doctors.

I have a sort of scientific mind, a sort of curious mind.

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