Kelly was a pawn in battle with BBC, says family’s lawyer
In his closing submission to the Hutton Inquiry, Jeremy Gompertz QC accused the British government of treating the weapons expert as a “pawn” in its bitter battle with the BBC over the alleged “sexing up” of the Iraq weapons dossier.
He said Mr Hoon had been an “enthusiastic supporter” of naming Dr Kelly as the BBC’s source and charged him with a “cynical abuse of power” in the Ministry of Defence’s treatment of him in the days leading up to his death.
