We still aren’t sure why, two summers ago, Dr David Kelly killed himself. I don’t believe for one moment he was murdered — cui bono? And, for example, I have no doubt the mysterious men in black near the scene really were policemen.
Yet it does remain puzzling. The general view seems to be that he was a man who prized above everything his integrity and his honesty.

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