Sunday, January 24, 2010

Conspiracy Praxis: 'Lord' Hutton issues 70-year gag order on David Kelly murder evidence

Evening Standard, 24 Jan 2010:

70-year gag order on David Kelly death evidence

Evidence relating to the death of Government weapons inspector David Kelly is to be kept secret for 70 years, it has been reported.

A highly unusual ruling by Lord Hutton, who chaired the inquiry into Dr Kelly's death, means medical records including the post-mortem report will remain classified until after all those with a direct interest in the case are dead, the Mail on Sunday reported.

And a 30-year secrecy order has been placed on written records provided to Lord Hutton's inquiry which were not produced in evidence.


Headline edited for typos:

Jimmy 'The Duke' Hutton brags: "Yeah, we killed Kelly. Live with it, suckers."

From a Wiki summary of Lord Almighty's stellar career:


The Rt. Hon. The Lord Hutton, QC, PC

Lord Hutton also came to public attention in 1999 during the extradition proceedings of former Chilean dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet. Pinochet had been arrested in London on torture allegations by request of a Spanish judge. Five Law Lords, the UK's highest court, decided by a 3-2 majority that Pinochet was to be extradited to Spain. The verdict was then overturned by a panel of seven Law Lords, including Lord Hutton[2] on the grounds that Lord Hoffmann, one of the five Law Lords, had links to human rights group Amnesty International which had campaigned for Pinochet's extradition.

In 1978 he defended Britain in the European Court of Human Rights when it was found guilty of torturing internees without trial. He sentenced 10 men to 1,001 years in prison on the word of 'supergrass' informer Robert Quigley who was granted immunity in 1984.

Lord Hutton was appointed by the Blair government to chair the inquiry on the circumstances surrounding the death of the British scientist Dr David Kelly at the heart of the September Dossier controversy. ...

The road to almightiness (short version):
Styles

* Mr Brian Hutton (1931–1970)
* Mr Brian Hutton QC (1970–1979)
* Sir Brian Hutton QC (1979–1988)
* The Rt. Hon. Sir Brian Hutton QC (1988–1997)
* The Rt. Hon. The Lord Hutton QC PC (1997–)

I wonder what he did to deserve all those honours.

2 comments:

  1. A highly unusual ruling by Lord Hutton, who chaired the inquiry into Dr Kelly's death, means medical records including the post-mortem report will remain classified until after all those with a direct interest in the case are dead, the Mail on Sunday reported.

    Legal sidenote: should any of them still be alive in seventy years' time, they will be executed on that date.

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  2. Anonymous1:03 PM

    It's brazen. Utterly shameless.

    And the BBC, the Guardian and the Independent have not had a word to say about it. Haven't even reported it.

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