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Mr Campbell, who learnt the news on his return to

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said he had done "nothing wrong" and the tragedy
showed "something has gone horribly wrong with our
political and media culture"

lain Duncan Smith suggested that Mr Blalr should

consider cutting short his visit to the Far East and
return to the UK for a possible re-call of Parliament

He said "There are many questions that will need to

be asked over the coming days and I think if I were
the Prime Minister I would want to be back here to
deal with these "

A BBC spokesman said "We are shocked and

saddened to hear what has happened and we extend
our deepest sympathies to Dr Kelly's family and
friends While Dr Kelly's family await the formal
identification, it would not be appropriate for us to
make any further statement"

But Robert Jackson, Dr Kelly's local MP, said that if

he had committed suicide, the BBC was to blame
The corporation should have confirmed that Dr Kelly
was not the source after the select committee
reached that conclusion, the Tory MP for Wantage
said

He said "I am obviously very concerned about this

and I think the responsibility of the BBC should not
go unmentloned The management refused to say he
was not the source Gllllgan had given them

"The question then is pressure he came under The

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pressure was significantly increased by the fact the

BBC refused to make it clear he was not the source "

One of Dr Kelly s close friends, the veteran journalist

Tom Mangold, said that the scientist believed he was
the main source behind Mr Gilligan's story

The claim contradicts Dr Kelly's insistence to the

Foreign Affairs Select Committee that he did not
believe he was the prime source

"I guess he could not cope with the firestorm that

developed after he gave what he regarded as a
routine briefing to Gilligan," Mr Mangold told the BBC
Radio 4 PM programme

"He felt he was Gilligan's major source . As I recall it,

Andrew Gilligan said the man he spoke to was an
expert on weapons of mass destruction and they met
at a London hotel

"If that's true that sounds to me like Dave Kelly "

Asked why he had told the committee that he was

not the main source, Mr Mangold said "I think his
famous precision let him down there, because what
he said to me was that there were parts of the
Gilligan transmission that he did not recognise, but
that did not mean that he wasn't the main source "

Richard Ottaway, a Tory member of the Foreign

Affairs Select Committee, said the committee
reconvened simply to ask Mr Gilhgan to name his
source because it was quite clear Dr Kelly was not
the source "There are games going on here, there
are people trying to make points, trying to shut down
avenues of inquiry, trying to open up things

"But putting up Dr Kelly was just part of the

distraction and it's had the most ghastly result and I
am deeply critical of those involved "

A police search team found Dr Kelly's body lying in a

wooded copse two miles from where he lived in the
small village of Southmoor, less than ten hours after
he was reported missing late on Thursday night

A police source said that the body was beneath the

trees and they had ruled out hanging, an overdose or
use of a gun in the death They also said that natural
causes had been ruled out Dr Kelly was a keen
walker and had left at 3pm When he had not
returned by midnight one of his three daughters rang
police to report his disappearance

Detectives searched his home and it is believed that

they took away a computer and several files from the
house It is not known if he left a note

One of his oldest friends told yesterday how Dr Kelly

would not have liked being in the limelight From his

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home in America, Roger Avery, a professor of

virology, said . "I feel he got himself caught up in the
middle of all that against his wishes because he is
not a publicity-seeker "

The first hint that Dr Kelly was about to get caught up

in the row over whether the Government had
deliberately "sexed up" the intelligence dossier was
when he returned to his office in Whitehall from a
week's trip to Iraq

He was shown a transcript of the evidence Mr

Gilligan had given to the Foreign Affairs Select
Committee, and recognised certain technical
references to be ones he had divulged during his
lunch with the reporter

He wrote a memo to his line manager explaining his

fears that he might have been the informant for Mr
Gdllgan's story on the BBC Today programme Later,
however, when Dr Kelly appeared before the
committee, he said he could not have been the main
source because of allegations that bore no
resemblance to the conversation he had with the
journalist on May 22

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