Dr Kelly murder/suicide

[tolman]

'Pathologist says David Kelly's death 'textbook suicide'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11050587

Obviously, to the conspiracy nut, that makes it more suspicious - either it's a cover up by the pathologist, or the murder was done too well.

[brianp]

The full post-mortem report is now available at:

http://www.justice.gov.uk/publicatio...report-dpa.pdf

[skbuncks]

The full post-mortem report is now available at:

http://www.justice.gov.uk/publicatio...report-dpa.pdf

I demand that a new impartial post-mortem be conducted by independent specialists and not some shill in the pay of the Home Office.

skb

[Pebble]

Heard a fruitbat (ex assistant coroner) on the PM program complaining that she remained concerned that Kelly died from lacteration of the "minor ulnar artery".

People shoudl really check some facts before making such statements - on average the ulnar is only marginally smaller than the radial, just less often chosen by those who do not know this.


http://www.invasivecardiology.com/ar...aphy-FULL-TITL

Mean radial, ulnar and brachial arterial inner diameters were 2.94 ± 0.52 mm, 2.51 ± 0.49 mm and 4.53 ± 0.62 mm.


Other interesting features - quite severe coronary disease, and abnormal coronary origins (both coronaries arising from one sinus) - no expert looked at this but if the course of the abberant artery tracks between the great vessels this is a recongised cause of sudden death.

So all in all, classical self inflicted injury pattern, transection of an artery more than large enough to cause exsanguination, and a pro arrhythmic substrates (severe coronary disease, high blood levels of dextropropoxyphene and an abberant coronary course - possibly also important) to explain why blood loss alone was not the only single cause of death.

More than satisfactory - I would say.