Nine experts write to the Times
13th August 2010
TIME FOR A PROPER INQUEST INTO DR KELLY'S DEATH
Sir
Amid the continuing interest surrounding the death of the government weapons inspector, the late Dr David Kelly, we wish to express our concern about the conclusion as to the cause of death in the light of the information now in the public domain. It is extremely unlikely, from a medical perspective, that the primary cause of death would or could have been haemorrhage from a severed ulnar arter in one wrist without any evidence of a blood clotting deficiency.
This small artery, deeper in the wrist than the larger radial artery used to palpate the pulse, would have retracted on being severed and within a short time blood loss would be expected to have ceased.Insufficient blood would have been lost to threaten life.
Absent a quantitative assessment of the blood lost and of the blood remaining in the great vessels, the conclusion that death occcurred as a consequence of haemorrhage is unsafe.
The inquiry by Lord Hutton was unsatisfactory with regard to the causation of death. A detailed investigation of all the medical circumstatnces is now required and we support the call for a proper inquest into the cause of Dr Kelly's death.
DR MICHAEL J POWERS QC
Barrister, Medical Practioner and Examiner to the Faculty of Forensic and Legal Medicine, Royal College of Physicians
PROFESSOR JULIAN BION
Professor of Intensive Care Medicine, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham
DR MARGARET BLOOM
Barrister, Former General Medical Practioner and Fomer Deputy Coroner
DR NEVILLE DAVIS
Consultant Forensic Physician
DR ELIZABETH DRIVER
Solicitor and Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists
SIR BARRY JACKSON
Past president, British Academy of Forensic Sciences
DR JASON PAYNE-JAMES
Consultant Forensic Physician and Honorary Senior Lecturer, Cameron Forensic Medical Sciences, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry
PROFESSOR JOHN FRANCIS NUNNDENIS WILKINS
Retired Consultant Vascular Surgeon
Originally published in The Times (subscription only) This version retrieved from:
http://dr-david-kelly.blogspot.com/
TIME FOR A PROPER INQUEST INTO DR KELLY'S DEATH
Sir
Amid the continuing interest surrounding the death of the government weapons inspector, the late Dr David Kelly, we wish to express our concern about the conclusion as to the cause of death in the light of the information now in the public domain. It is extremely unlikely, from a medical perspective, that the primary cause of death would or could have been haemorrhage from a severed ulnar arter in one wrist without any evidence of a blood clotting deficiency.
This small artery, deeper in the wrist than the larger radial artery used to palpate the pulse, would have retracted on being severed and within a short time blood loss would be expected to have ceased.Insufficient blood would have been lost to threaten life.
Absent a quantitative assessment of the blood lost and of the blood remaining in the great vessels, the conclusion that death occcurred as a consequence of haemorrhage is unsafe.
The inquiry by Lord Hutton was unsatisfactory with regard to the causation of death. A detailed investigation of all the medical circumstatnces is now required and we support the call for a proper inquest into the cause of Dr Kelly's death.
DR MICHAEL J POWERS QC
Barrister, Medical Practioner and Examiner to the Faculty of Forensic and Legal Medicine, Royal College of Physicians
PROFESSOR JULIAN BION
Professor of Intensive Care Medicine, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham
DR MARGARET BLOOM
Barrister, Former General Medical Practioner and Fomer Deputy Coroner
DR NEVILLE DAVIS
Consultant Forensic Physician
DR ELIZABETH DRIVER
Solicitor and Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists
SIR BARRY JACKSON
Past president, British Academy of Forensic Sciences
DR JASON PAYNE-JAMES
Consultant Forensic Physician and Honorary Senior Lecturer, Cameron Forensic Medical Sciences, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry
PROFESSOR JOHN FRANCIS NUNNDENIS WILKINS
Retired Consultant Vascular Surgeon
Originally published in The Times (subscription only) This version retrieved from:
http://dr-david-kelly.blogspot.com/
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