1984: David Kelly joins Mod
1991: Kelly joins UN agency UNSCOM and leads first weapons inspection of Iraq?s weapons of mass destruction.
1992: Kelly appointed senior adviser in biological defence at Porton Down.
February, 2001: Kelly meets journalist Andrew Gilligan at Charing Cross Hotel, in London.
March, 2002: Saddam Hussein described as ?demonstrable threat? in Foreign Office report. Tony Blair commissions dossier on WMD.
September 9, 2002: Kelly first shown dossier, now containing claim that Saddam could fire WMD in 45 minutes. He assists in its compilation.
September 24, 2002: Dossier published.
February 2003: Kelly tells British diplomat there had been ?a lot of pressure? to make dossier robust on WMD readiness. Kelly says if Iraq is invaded he will ?probably be found dead in the woods?.
May 22, 2003: Kelly meets Gilligan who notes him saying ?transformed wk before pub to make it sexier the classic was the 45mins?.
May 29, 2003: Gilligan broadcasts ?sexed up? report on BBC Radio 4?s Today programme. Downing Street issues rebuttal.
June 25, 2003: Alastair Campbell, Blair?s press secretary, tells Foreign Affairs Select Committee the Gilligan story is ?a lie? and demands an apology.
July 9, 2003: BBC admits that Gilligan met Kelly on May 22. Kelly?s name confirmed to press by MoD as leak. Kelly and wife Janice warned ?hordes? of press are coming and head to Cornwall.
July 11, 2003: Kelly told he will have to give evidence before Foreign Affairs Committee. Mrs Kelly says later: ?I have never known him to be as unhappy as he was then.?
July 17, 2003: Day after giving evidence to Intelligence and Security Committee, Kelly emails reporter and refers to ?many dark actors playing games?. Kelly goes out for a walk and is later reported missing.
July 18, 2003: Kelly?s body found at Harrowdown Hill close to his home. Blair describes Dr Kelly's death as "an absolutely terrible tragedy". He says there is "going to be a due process and a proper and independent inquiry and I believe that should be allowed to establish the facts." Lord Hutton is appointed to urgently conduct an inquiry into ?the circumstances surrounding the death of Dr Kelly?.
August 1, 2003: Lord Hutton?s inquiry into Kelly?s death opens. Tony Blair testifies later in the month.
September 25, 2003: Hutton inquiry closes.
January 28, 2004: Lord Hutton delivers his report, finding that Kelly died from blood loss after slashing his wrist with a blunt gardening knife. Hutton criticises Gilligan for reporting ?unfounded? allegations against the government.
January 29, 2004: Greg Dyke resigns as Director General of the BBC.
March, 2004: Oxford coroner Nicholas Gardiner concludes there is no case for reopening the inquest into Kelly?s death.
July, 2006: Liberal Democrat MP, Norman Baker, calls for new public inquiry into Kelly?s death, after conducting his own six-month investigation. He says that Kelly did not commit suicide and may have been the victim of a murder and subsequent coverup.
October, 2007: Baker publishes book ?The Strange Death of David Kelly?
December, 2009: A group of six doctors begin legal action to attempt to overturn the finding of suicide.They say the Hutton inquiry was "totally inadequate" and that bleeding from Dr Kelly's ulnar artery in his left wrist was "highly unlikely" to have caused his death.
April, 2010: Dominic Grieve, then shadow justice secretary, says: "Should the Conservative Party form a government at the next election I will look into the matter of Dr Kelly's death to establish whether more information should in fact be released to the public. I will also give consideration to whether an inquest into his death should be reopened."
August, 2010: Former Tory leader Michael Howard leads cross-party calls for a new inquest.
May 18, 2011: David Cameron says in the Commons that the Hutton report into the Government weapons inspector's death had been ?fairly clear?, adding: ?I don't think it's necessary to take that case forward.?
June 9, 2011: Attorney General Dominic Grieve rules out asking the High Court to order an inquest into the death of David Kelly.
In every suspected death an inquest is held, but this inquest has been always denied by our MP, does the law and order makes any since, when an inquest was introduced for the purpose of finding the truth.
smilies are appropiate why?
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