UK News 22-08-2003 Kelly Predicted Death In Woods who: Weapons expert Dr David Kelly what: Appeared to predict the manner of his death, says diplomat where: The High Court, LONDON when: Yesterday snippet: "Dr David Kelly predicted the manner of his death in a conversation with a senior British diplomat six months before his apparent suicide," reports The Independent this morning after David Broucher, the former ambassador to the Czech Republic, gave evidence to the Hutton inquiry at The High Court yesterday. Mr Broucher, who is now Britain`s permanent representative at the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva, spoke to Dr Kelly in February. "Dr Kelly feared that, if America and Britain invaded, some of his Iraqi contacts would be killed," says The Times, "and others would believe that he had betrayed them." "I said to him `What will happen if Iraq is invaded?`," Mr Broucher told the court, "and his reply was — which I took at the time to be a throwaway remark — he said: `I will probably be found dead in the woods`." "The court also heard how on the day Dr Kelly was named, he was visited by journalist Nick Rufford,." says The Sun, which wrongly identifies Mr Broucher as a former ambassador to Iraq. "He asked Dr Kelly if his conversation with Gilligan was accurately reported. Dr Kelly replied: I talked to him about factual stuff, the rest is bullshit." [... more]

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