By Christopher Hope, Whitehall Editor
Published: 5:06PM BST 19 Aug 2010

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The Daily Telegraph disclosed how Dominic Grieve, the Government’s senior law officer, was prepared to befall in the controversy, after admitting that those who doubted Dr Kelly’s self-murder “may have a valid point”.

Mr Grieve said he was delaying until Mr Clarke, the Justice Secretary, decided whether to release the therapeutical documents, including the post-mortem report, which were sealed by Lord Hutton, who investigated the departure in 2004, for 70 years.

 

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The leader of a group of doctors, who are pushing concerning Mr Grieve to apply for a full inquest into the end of life, said it was “strange” that Mr Clarke was session on the evidence which Mr Grieve, wished to see.

Dr Michael Powers QC uttered: “The clamour for a full inquest is based upon the matter that neither the doctors nor the public have been given attack to key information.

“It seems strange that the Attorney General over is left waiting for the release of medical evidence held ~ means of the Ministry of Justice.

“Secrecy only fuels speculation. It is time at this time for all the issues and unanswered questions to be explored ~ the agency of a coroner.”

Mr Grieve told The Daily Telegraph in one interview that the Government wanted to resolve the controversy. He uttered: “We would like to resolve this in a way that have power to give the public reassurance.

“People who have expressed concerns hither and thither why Lord Hutton did not tie up every loose end may bear a valid point.”

Pressed later on television whether he opinion there had been a “cover-up” over Dr Kelly’s death by the last Government, Mr Grieve, told ITV News: “”I esteem no reason to think… that there has been a cover-up.

“I discern that some people have put some theories forward but if you’re, going to oblige a theory forward like that you need some evidence.

“As matters stand at the twinkling I haven’t seen any evidence but if there is ~ one evidence my office is the place to send it to.”

A Ministry of Justice speaker said: “The request for the release of papers is currently below consideration”.

Dr Kelly’s body was found in a timber-land near his home in Oxfordshire in July 2003 shortly after he was exposed during the time that the source of a BBC report which said the Government had exaggerated the precipitate for the war in Iraq.

His death led to an study by Lord Hutton which concluded that he had, killed himself, using a knife to cut his wrist and taking an overdose of co-proxamol painkillers.

But combination theorists have suggested there might be more to his death, especially as Lord Hutton ordered that the post mortem remain ,secret because of 70 years ““in view of the distress that could be caused to Dr Kelly’s wife and daughters”.

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