Hutton Inquiry: 'Ministers used Kelly as a pawn'

British Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon was today labelled a liar and a hypocrite by the lawyer for the family of David Kelly as he launched a blistering attack on the Ministry of Defence.

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.