UK News 02-09-2003 Betrayed by the MoD who: Weapons expert Dr David Kelly what: Felt betrayed by the Ministry of Defence, says widow where: The High Court, LONDON when: Yesterday snippet: "The widow of David Kelly accused the Ministry of Defence yesterday of breaking assurances to her husband that his name would not be made public after he admitted speaking to the BBC reporter Andrew Gilligan," says The Telegraph. "He felt betrayed." Dr Kelly, the weapons expert whose name was leaked to the press as the source of Gilligan`s "dodgy dossier" report, did not "say in so many terms" that it was the Ministry of Defence which had betrayed him, explains The Guardian, but Mrs Kelly says she "believed he meant the MoD because they were the ones that had effectively let his name be known in the public domain." On July 17th, the day she last saw her husband alive, Janice Kelly says she was "physically sick with concern for him". She says he had "shrunk into himself" but she had "no idea" that the next morning he would be found dead in the woods having apparently slit his wrist "with a boy scout knife he had kept since childhood". Following Mrs Kelly`s appearance, says The Independent, "witnesses who have given evidence at Lord Hutton`s inquiry... are anxiously waiting to find out whether they will be summoned to return for another round of questioning". They are likely to include Andrew Gilligan, the prime minister`s outgoing spokesman Alastair Campbell and secretary of state for defence Geoff Hoon. The prime minister himself is unlikely to be recalled. [... more]

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