Secret Dr David Kelly Medical Files Released

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Source: Sky News

Secret medical files have been published by the Ministry of Justice in an attempt to end speculation the circumstances of the government scientist's death were hushed up.

The expert was found dead in woods near his home in Oxfordshire in 2003 but the files say the wounds to his body were "typical of a self-inflicted injury".

The post-mortem report, which was supposed to be kept secret for 70 years, concludes he died from a haemorrhage and wounds to his wrist.

It found Dr Kelly had at least five cuts of varying depth and had severed his ulnar artery. The report describes "heavy bloodstaining over the left arm".

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David Kelly files: live coverage

11.04 am (UK time): The release of the reports today hasn't quietened some of the critics. Michael Powers QC, was one of the group of nine doctors who were calling for a full inquest into Kelly's death in August of this year, and said today that today's publication hadn't changed his mind.

Powers told BBC News this morning that there was "nothing new" in the documents and there was still a "major conflict" over the amount of blood at the scene.

He said that Kelly may have taken "far less than 29 tablets" and, if he had only taken six or eight, "one might draw completely different conclusions".

"I don't believe any of the evidence that we have seen or heard to date can answer those questions," Powers said.

More: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/blog/2010/oct/22/dr-david-kelly-files-live