tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7713282434144514700.post6020912583081892417..comments2023-10-02T15:01:43.213+01:00Comments on Chilcot's Cheating Us: The Death of David Kelly - Spinning a suicide tale too early on 18th July 2003Andrew Watthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03829322263100808179noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7713282434144514700.post-68352269836898435402011-09-19T14:46:32.272+01:002011-09-19T14:46:32.272+01:00Actually it is Tilley, not Tilly.
Councillor Melin...Actually it is Tilley, not Tilly.<br />Councillor Melinda Tilley, Appleby House, Kingston Bagpuize, Oxfordshire, OX13 5AP 01865 820385, melinda.tilley@oxfordshire.gov.ukfelixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12363991252776819712noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7713282434144514700.post-91408644985684183602011-09-19T14:31:25.118+01:002011-09-19T14:31:25.118+01:00The Sun newspaper had quickly tapped up the Vawdre...The Sun newspaper had quickly tapped up the Vawdrey family for quotes: <br /><i>His sister-in-law Sandra Vawdrey, 48, said: “I think the politicians are going to have a lot of questions to answer.<br /><br />“We’ve just been watching Tony Blair on the news offering his sympathy to the family ? but it’s a bit late.<br /><br />“We weren’t impressed, to say the least. It’s been a traumatic time for all of us.”<br /><br />Niece Wendy Vawdrey, in her late 20s, added: “The whole family is deeply distressed. I heard it on the radio and just couldn’t believe it.”<br /><br />Dr Kelly’s daughter Ellen, 30, who lives in Scotland, was too upset to comment.<br /></i><br />Torcuil Crighton in <a href="http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4156/is_20030720/ai_n12583737/pg_2/?tag=content;col1" rel="nofollow">The Sunday Herald, 20 July 2003</a> got a quote from villagers,already softened up by the Saturday media:<br /><i>Roger Speed, washing his BMW in the courtyard of modern red brick housing development close to the Kelly home, summed up the feeling. "Here was a good man, did nothing wrong and the papers and the politicians just played him until he was crushed."<br /><br />"He was a lovely man, well respected and liked," said local councillor Melinda Tilly. "What did they do to him?" <br /><br />"He was a nice man," said his closest neighbour Ada Gunn with a sincere simplicity. "A very kind friend." <br /></i>felixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12363991252776819712noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7713282434144514700.post-39246485759420243322011-08-05T21:28:22.135+01:002011-08-05T21:28:22.135+01:00Andrew,
there were apparently two Sunday Mirror ar...Andrew,<br />there were apparently two Sunday Mirror articles , by Stephen Martin (cited above) and Alan Rimmer and another which is captured on the web,authored jointly by Stephen Martin and Alan Rimmer. The one captured with the url<br />http://www.sundaymirror.co.uk/news/content_objectid=13197346_method=full<br />_siteid=106694_headline=-PANIC-OVER--KILLER-FACT--A-loving--private-and-<br />dignified-man-has-been-taken-from-us--Events-over-recent-name_page.html<br /><br />was interesting for the following sentences:<br /><i>"It was also thought that on the afternoon of his suicide he made a call from a pay phone to a national newspaper, fearing that his own line was tapped."<br /></i><br />and <br /><i>"An intelligence source said: "People are starting to put two and two<br />together and they don't like what it is adding up to. There is absolute panic about what Dr Kelly may have left behind. It's a ticking time-bomb...they are desperate to find out what he has done"<br /><br /></i>felixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12363991252776819712noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7713282434144514700.post-76411202443304998942011-06-08T18:31:53.101+01:002011-06-08T18:31:53.101+01:00Felix,
I think we can probably cut Sir David Mann...Felix,<br /><br />I think we can probably cut Sir David Manning some slack on that one.Andrew Watthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03829322263100808179noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7713282434144514700.post-69889672122791378852011-06-08T18:11:03.440+01:002011-06-08T18:11:03.440+01:00Sir David Manning implies he had nothing further t...Sir David Manning implies he had nothing further to do with Dr Kelly after 8th July when Dr Kelly was "outed"<br /><i>"Q. Did you have any further involvement?<br />A. No, I did not at that stage."<br />"Q.So 9th, 10th, 11th?<br />A. No."<br /><br />"I only have, I am afraid, a fairly hazy memory of whe he gave that [FAC/ISC] evidence [15/16 July 2003]"<br /><br />He was in process of handing over to Sir Nigel Scheinwald at the time. Perhaps the panic, following Dr Kelly's sudden death, during 18th July caused his memory to cloud over from two days previously? </i><br /><br /><br />Is this memory black hole because he had said to Lord Hutton:<br /><i>" I had nothing further to do with Dr Kelly, the events around Dr Kelly, after that meeting at lunchtime on Tuesday [8 July 2003]</i>"<br /><br />Which wouldn't be strictly true, according to the Blair diaries, would it?felixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12363991252776819712noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7713282434144514700.post-40797934007635021432011-06-08T18:07:29.628+01:002011-06-08T18:07:29.628+01:00Felix,
I have some sympathy with Sir David Mannin...Felix,<br /><br />I have some sympathy with Sir David Manning.<br /><br />I would hate to have to give evidence as to exactly which parts of the evidence about the murder of David Kelly I first knew when.<br /><br />I've even occasionally looked at old posts on this blog and realised that I'd completely forgotten that I'd known a certain fact so far back.Andrew Watthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03829322263100808179noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7713282434144514700.post-35009963430631403592011-06-08T17:59:25.336+01:002011-06-08T17:59:25.336+01:00Sir David Manning at the Hutton Inquiry
"I w...Sir David Manning at the Hutton Inquiry<br /><br /><i>"I was aware of the preparation surrounding the dossier I was not actually involved in drafting it."<br /><br />"Q.First of all, before [early July 2003], had you ever heard of Dr Kelly at all?<br />A. No, to the best of my knowledge I had never heard of him.<br /><br />Q And at this stage do you yet have any knowledge of Dr Kelly's own role in the dossier?<br />A. No, nothing very substantive. I have to be careful now because since the Inquiry began I have, of course, seen a lot of witness transcripts."<br /><br />"But I personally was not familiar with Dr Kelly's career. I had not heard about him. And I did not know at what meetings he had taken part in the DIS or elsewhere."<br /><br /><br /></i><br /><br /><br /><br />What, no gossip from Ehrman,Straw, Chaplin,Campbell, Blair,Powell,Scarlett, Dearlove etc etc...? And why does he have to be careful if everyone is telling the truth?felixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12363991252776819712noreply@blogger.com