David Christopher Kelly (May 17th 1944 - July 17th 2003) was an employee of the ministry for British defense and an expert in biological war. He was inspector of UNO in Iraq, where he went 37 times.

Found dead close to its residence, it is proven that he was the principal adviser of Andrew Gilligan, journalist of BBC, about its investigation into the falsification of a report/ratio of September 2002, by the British government of Tony Blair, concerning the Iraqi weapons of massive destruction .

Chronology of the David Kelly Business

• Thursday July 17th, 2003, in England, David Kelly , a former inspector of UNO, is found died close to its residence, in Harrowdon Hill (Oxfordshire). According to the police force it would have committed suicide by gashing the veins of the left wrist. An investigation is entrusted to Lord Brian Hutton.

• Thursday August 21st, 2003, before the board of inquiry of Lord Hutton, a witness tells that David Kelly would have said to him, on February 27th, in Geneva, that if Iraq were attacked, it “probably would be found died in wood”.

• Thursday August 28th, 2003, after hearing, the day before, of the Minister for defense Geoff Hoon, the Prime Minister Tony Blair is in her turn heard by the Hutton commission. He denies any falsification of the reports/ratios of the intelligence services.

• Friday August 29th, 2003, following the hearing of British the Prime Minister Tony Blair, before the commission Hutton, its communications director, Alastair Campbell, resigns.

• Thursday January 22nd, 2004, one week before the very awaited publication of the report/ratio of the judge Brian Hutton, BBC delivered to one shingling self-criticism in a special program on the Business David Kelly, fustigating her own direction to have defended an imperfect report on the exaggeration of the Iraqi threat by the Prime Minister.

• Wednesday January 28th, 2004, the report/ratio of the judge Brian Hutton bleaches in fact the Prime Minister Tony Blair and her former principal private secretary Alastair Campbell, by affirming that those did not do anything “to inflate” and make “sexier” the file on the Iraqi arsenal, and did not deliver a name of David Kelly to the press.

• On the other hand, public radio-television BBC is recognized as the single culprit in a business of State which showed the death of a man. The report/ratio considers its leaders “faulty”, his “defective” organization and its allegations against “unfounded” the government of Tony Blair. Its president, Gavyn Davies, and its managing director, Greg Dyke, are constrained with the resignation. The new president by interim Richard Ryder presents “excuses without reserves” to the government.
• the Prime Minister Tony Blair declares: “I ask those which affirmed in a repeated way that I lied on top to withdraw this allegation. ”
• on May 5th, 2005, dates from the British legislative elections, opposite 10 Downing Street, the French artist Marc Molk drew up the portrait painted of David Kelly in front of the apartments of British the Prime Minister, Tony Blair, with the memory of that which was sacrificed to a lie of State.

Catalog of films

• The Government Inspector ( the Price of the truth ), Telefilm of Peter Kosminsky, coproduction: ARTE France, Chanel 4, Mentorn. Exit on July 10th, 2005 on Arte.