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Paramedics doubt Dr Kelly's 'suicide' cause

One question Mr Editor, have you ever read up on the huge numbers of apparent 'suicides' of Marconi scientists? It's compelling stuff.
I know someone whose relative worked for Marconi, quite a few years back. He had no money problems, no personal problems, nothing...but was found hanging. There are too many like this, many of these employees were working on, or had worked on, very sensitive projects for the military/government.


http://www.disinfo.com/archive/pages/dossier/id392/pg1/
 
Idris2002 said:
I think the key thing there is no personal/money problems that we know of.
Eh? He'd been thrust into the media spotlight and was under enormous pressure from the press.
 
Yes, I was referring to the Marconi scientists.

Mike's point about the massive pressure Kelly was under is a very cogent one, but then you get the problem, why didn't he choose a more effective method of suicide.

The pattern with male suicides in general is that they pick a method that is pretty certain of doing the job.

As I say, I don't know if it was suicide or not. Maybe there's something in pathology and medical science which would support the hypothesis that while the injury Kelly sustained and the amount of drugs in his system were not enough to kill him on their own, they were enough to kill if they were combined? (hope that's clear).

Elements of the British state are quite capable of killing those who get in its way - look at collusion with the loyalists in Northern Ireland. But the problem with the Kelly death is that it's difficult to see what advantage there was to the government in killing him.

It's simply the repetition of these claims that Kelly's injuries/amount of drugs ingested were unusually small for a suicide that makes me doubt it was suicide (which does not mean that I'm going to jump over to the opposite side and say it was a state murder). If not for that reason I'd say it was suicide.

Now let me tell you about my theory of the death of JFK - I don't think anyone has considered the possibility that the president may have been cleaning a gun in the car at the time. . .
 
From Stobart's link:

John Muskopf, 28, was out walking with friends, reported MSNBC.com (June 19, 2000), when a car pulled up alongside him. Someone demanded cash, then "police believe Muskopf refused, and he was shot in the head and neck." Another researcher pointed out that it is rare in any big city for someone to get mugged by car. Did Muskopf analyze the wrong information? Remember the 1975 film Three Days of the Condor?

Or maybe Muskopf was a victim of the statiscally rare but possible car based mugging. I saw it in a movie once.
 
hegley said:
According to the Observer, not a fatal dose though. 'Tis an interesting, and non-hysterical article - worth a read.

Kelly was known to hate swallowing tablets and could barely do so. It's now known that at death blood concentration of drugs can change tenfold so there is now absolutely no evidence that he swallowed 29 co-proxamol tablets at all.

Clearly, he didn't bleed to death and this sworn statement by these brave paramedics proves it.

It is an absolute disgrace that this distinguished scientist was not given a full coroner's inquest to determine the cause of death, which is certainly a mystery. One has to wonder why this is so.
 
DrJazzz said:
Kelly was known to hate swallowing tablets and could barely do so. It's now known that at death blood concentration of drugs can change tenfold so there is now absolutely no evidence that he swallowed 29 co-proxamol tablets at all.
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Both these claims are news to me. Got any links for 'em?
 
editor said:
Well, the 'allegations' aren't new: they've just been repeated.

Crucially, the family - who have obviously seen a lot more evidence than anyone here - declared themselves satisfied with the findings and that suggests that they believe it likely that Kelly would have committed suicide.

Until someone produces a fact-supported, credible alternative theory as to his death, I'm inclined to believe that his death was suicide.

How about you?
Editor: Dr. Michael Powers QC has cast doubt upon the evidence (see my post #18).

I'm sure you know I'm not into conspiracy nonsense, god knows I've argued with the likes of Dr Jazzz enough.

But still IMO this case still has a lot of unanswered questions.
 
Idris2002 said:
Both these claims are news to me. Got any links for 'em?

...Blood that is not circulating after death is not the same as before death, said Robert Forrest, professor of forensic toxicology at Sheffield University and one of the authors. "After death, drugs which are bound in tissue move back into blood."

They write that drug concentrations are likely to have changed before blood samples can be taken. "For many drugs, including those found in David Kelly, concentrations may increase by as much as tenfold," they say.

http://www.prisonplanet.tv/articles/september2004/200904doubtsoversuicide.htm

An American confidante of David Kelly has cast doubt on whether his death was suicide.

Days before Lord Hutton's report into his death is published, Mai Pederson claimed the Government scientist received death threats because of his work in Iraq.

She said she was surprised that he had apparently taken 20 painkillers before slashing his wrist in remote woodland - because he had an aversion to swallowing tablets...

http://www.prisonplanet.com/260104didnotkillhimself.html
 
Interesting links. Pity they seem to be some dodgy xtian fundie site, even if they're originally from the Gurnauiad and the Daily Mail.

Btw, have you ever heard of the story of the boy who cried wolf? ;)
 
editor said:
Eh? He'd been thrust into the media spotlight and was under enormous pressure from the press.

Well, Hugo Young wrote on July 19th 2003: "this is trifling stuff. In a normal world, where top people had not taken leave of their senses, it would certainly not push anyone over the brink of suicide, if that's what happened to David Kelly." Hugo Young was not someone whose opinions can be dismissed easily.

Micheal Shrimpton, a QC and a "national security lawyer" took the view that Kelly had been murdered.

Kelly was used to dealing with the media, and e-mails he sent hours before his death showed no sign that he was buckling under pressure, but in fact enjoying his job and looking forward to forthcoming trip to Iraq.
 
OK, but what exactly would the state have gained from murdering him? Could they have decided to kill him out of panic, or on general principles?
 
Idris2002 said:
Both these claims are news to me. Got any links for 'em?

The claim was made by professor of forensic toxicology at the university of sheffield - Robert Forrest - it was in the papers a while back, but I don't have a link - you could probably google for one though.

Edit: I see Dr Jazz has put up a link up though - that'll teach me not to check first.
 
Idris2002 said:
OK, but what exactly would the state have gained from murdering him? Could they have decided to kill him out of panic, or on general principles?
that's a good question. At the time the media was telling us that the death was a bad thing for the govt, but in retrospect they seem to have come off unscathed. Whereas had he lived....... ? Was he about to say anything new and more damaging?
 
DrJazzz said:
Clearly, he didn't bleed to death and this sworn statement by these brave paramedics proves it.
Actually, they've said that there could have been more bleeding (under the body) as stated by one of the pathologists but they didn't see it as they weren't in attendance when the body was moved.

Try not to exaggerate, DrJ. It really doesn't help.
 
Major Tom said:
Kelly was used to dealing with the media, and e-mails he sent hours before his death showed no sign that he was buckling under pressure, but in fact enjoying his job and looking forward to forthcoming trip to Iraq.
I think you'll find it's not at all unusual for people to appear 'normal' and cheerful shortly before they commit suicide.
 
Major Tom said:
Micheal Shrimpton, a QC and a "national security lawyer"
What's one of them, then?

Oh, hold on. He's with the ' The Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs', whatever they are.
 
editor said:
I think you'll find it's not at all unusual for people to appear 'normal' and cheerful shortly before they commit suicide.
that's true, i've experienced that first-hand...some years ago i lived in a shared flat, where the bloke in the room next to mine AND his best friend commited double suicide... :( i came home late one night and saw the police breaking up the door... the day before (and the last 2-3 weeks before) he'd been nothing but cheery,smiling and friendly chatting away with us in the kitchen... :( we didn't suspect a thing,not even depression...
 
The guy was a man with indepth scientific knowledge. No doubt he had access to all manner of painless drugs that would do the job (possibly even knew which drugs couldn't be traced). But, then he wasn't of sound mind - it's pointless trying to apply rational thought.

If a government agent was employed to fake a suicide, surely they would have had the right training to leave everyone in absolutely no doubt?

It was very sad. The guy's job killed him indirectly. I wonder if he had any idea that his job was going to go this way when it was offered?
 
maya said:
that's true, i've experienced that first-hand...some years ago i lived in a shared flat, where the bloke in the room next to mine AND his best friend commited double suicide... :( i came home late one night and saw the police breaking up the door... the day before (and the last 2-3 weeks before) he'd been nothing but cheery,smiling and friendly chatting away with us in the kitchen... :( we didn't suspect a thing,not even depression...
:( That must have been tough. A couple of my friends have attempted suicide, but they were the cry for help variety rather than serious attempts.
 
Stanley Edwards said:
If a government agent was employed to fake a suicide, surely they would have had the right training to leave everyone in absolutely no doubt??
Indeed.
 
Idris2002 said:
OK, but what exactly would the state have gained from murdering him? Could they have decided to kill him out of panic, or on general principles?
The US-UK disinformation operation (ie Rumsfeld's Office of Special Plans in Washington and Campbell's people in London) certainly seemed to have had a strong tendency to mount media attacks on anyone who spoke out of turn, especially credible people, including various heads of state, Hans Blix, the UN etc. There was also the business where someone in the White House outed that CIA woman, as retaliation when her husband Ambassador Wilson told everybody their Nigerian uranium story was a load of old bollocks. Very vocal former US weapons inspector Scott Ritter suddenly went very quiet due to some suspicious looking stuff about an internet chatroom sex sting and another unconvinced US weapons inspector shut up fast when he was outed as a former member of an SM advocacy group.

We also saw some murkier stuff of unknown origin, but along the same lines. For example the dodgy documents used to smear George Galloway and the "abuse photographs" sting against Piers Morgan of the Daily Mirror both raise strong suspicions of govt. information operations against prominent 'enemies'

The principle of taking revenge on prominent and/or credible opposition certainly seems to have been consistently applied by these guys all down the line. If Dr Kelly was murdered, I'd guess that it happened when this policy was taken "too far" in the hands of some crazed underlings on the spooky fringes, no doubt to the horror of anyone senior who subsequently found out about it.

Actually going out and murdering an MoD scientist is a lot more extreme than smearing vocal opponents of the war, but when you reflect on the Watergate case, where we did find out a lot about what had been going on behind the scenes with a similar operations in the 70s, and when you think about the insanity of G. Gordon Liddy et al, you *can* see how that sort of thing might happen. Gung-ho clandestine psychopaths running wild, fantasising that they're working for Reynard Heidrich rather than a so-called democracy.

I don't think it's very likely, but I wouldn't dismiss it as being utterly impossible ... and unless some kind of monumental Liddy-style screw-up causes it to unravel on them, it's extremely likely we'll ever know for sure.
 
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