Tribute to 'remarkable' Kelly (UK Inquiry)

[MaineDem]

A friend of weapons expert Dr David Kelly has paid tribute to his "remarkable" work as the inquiry into the scientist's death opened in London.

Terence Taylor detailed how Dr Kelly was a specialist in biology, became his scientific and technological "mentor" in Iraq and was awarded the prestigious Cross of St Michael and St George in 1996 for his "superb work" in that country.

He said the weapons expert had seemed to be in a "normal state of mind" - discussing plans to visit Iraq and talking about his daughter's forthcoming wedding - when he stayed at his Oxfordshire home three or four weeks before his apparent suicide.

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