NOW that the Hillsborough Inquest Jury have delivered their momentous verdict of unlawful killing of the 96 poor souls who lost their lives in 1989, with no doubt due process of law to follow, with seemingly the first part of the justice they deserve now done.

This of course came about after 27 years of the relatives running a campaign to get to this stage. I hope and trust that the 96 can now finally start to rest in peace.

All the true evidence will now have to come out in any court action that will most likely take place in the coming months. Why has this taken 27 years to come to this stage? I think I know why.

As in any serious campaign to seek justice, with correspondence going to any number of Government departments, be it the AFT General's Office or the Ministry of Justice, all the replies given from these faceless overpaid ostentatious Civil Servant jobsworths, are always the same.

We have no comment to make or we neither confirm or deny, or we cannot help you further, or we will read your letters, but do not expect a reply etc etc. So much for open Government, and we are all in this together!

Our group titled Justice for Kelly (JFK) Group are also seeking a coroners court inquest with jury to look into the very suspicious death of Dr David Kelly in July 2003.

We have toiled away at this now for nearly four years, consistently blocked by any department we request information from, with letters as explained earlier being received by us.

As most now know, a coroners court inquest was opened and then adjourned by the then Oxfordshire coroner Nicholas Gardiner on 21 July 2003.

This was due to the Lord Chancellor at the time Charles Falconer cunningly using a little used rule that is usually only implemented for multiple deaths (train crashes etc) to then ask Lord John Hutton to form a public inquiry into Dr Kelly's death, rather than a normal coroners inquest which all people questioned would have to give answers under oath (as per Hillsborough).

This 'conveniently' was not a requirement in Hutton's 'dodgy dossier' inquiry.

Lord Hutton's verdict is that Dr Kelly slit his left wrist multiple times with his blunt pruning knife, cutting the ulnar artery, which is a very small artery, and then haemorrhaged to death.

This is of course a big NO NO in the medical school of thought. This was the only reason given on his death certificate as cause of death, but was not signed off by any doctor or Dr Nicholas Hunt, the pathologist who conducted the post mortem (a 'SPECIAL' port mortem as listed).

The death certificate was also not signed by an informant to confirm registration of death. Even the given date of death on the certificate is different to the date on his headstone! So it is clear the death certificate is not valid, a worthless piece of paper.

The post mortem papers are not signed or witnessed either as they should be! How very odd to say the least! Now, if Dr Kelly slit his own wrist with his pruning knife, how did he manage to achieve this feat without leaving any fingerprints on his knife (he had no gloves on) as confirmed by Thames Valley Police some time later. Answer, because he did not do this deed.

Dr Kelly was a highly intelligent man, and I am convinced that if he intended to end his life, he would have found a better way of doing it than sitting down against a tree on Harrowdown Hill, Longworth, Oxon hacking at his left wrist, while downing co-proxamol pills by the handful.

There is considerable more evidence we hold, but that is for the courts, when we go with it.

Our groups sole aim is to have this serious case of injustice (heard this before?) heard in a coroners court with jury, though not necessarily in the Oxfordshire coroners court.

I hope and trust it will not take us 27 years to achieve this.

Meanwhile, Dr Kelly remains deceased, but not by his own hand. Rest in peace sir, your time for 'TRUTH AND JUSTICE' is coming.

GERRARD JONAS
Justice for Kelly (JFK) Group
Standlake, Oxon