A weapons expert who worked with Dr David Kelly at the Government’s secret chemical warfare laboratory has been found dead in an apparent suicide.In circumstances strongly reminiscent of Dr Kelly’s own mysterious death nine years ago, the body of Dr Richard Holmes was discovered in a field four miles from the Porton Down defence establishment in Wiltshire. It is not yet known how he died.
Mr Holmes, 48, had gone missing two days earlier after telling his wife he was going out for a walk – just as Dr Kelly did before he was found dead at an Oxfordshire beauty spot in July 2003.
Police said there were no suspicious circumstances in the latest case but revealed that Dr Holmes had ‘recently been under a great deal of stress’.
He resigned from Porton Down last month, although the centre yesterday refused to explain why.
Inevitably, the parallels between the two cases will arouse the suspicions of conspiracy theorists.
Despite Lord Hutton’s ruling eight years ago that Dr Kelly committed suicide, many people – among them a group of doctors – believe his inquiry was insufficient and have demanded a full inquest.
Some believe Dr Kelly, who kept an office at Porton Down right up until his death, was murdered. He was outed as being the source of a BBC report that Downing Street ‘sexed up’ evidence of Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction to justify going to war. Read More
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Many employees at Porton Down in the past have apparently been found dead after committing suicide, or have had road traffic accidents. The place has a history of this.
David Kelly's death is suspicious as is this Richard Holmes's. According to the police and prior to his death - he had 'googled' information about toxic substances even though he was a chemist.
I've worked there. The only reason people commit suicide after working there is because the work bores you to tears and many of the staff are inbred goons from the local area. There is no conspiracy here. I knew Richard Holmes. He was a top guy - if not a bit of a workaholic. He didn't resign willingly, he was forced to resign for not being "corporate" enough. All he cared about was the science, and he paid the price. Due to the conflict of interests, he would've been unable to work at another military laboratory for two years, which would've left him out of work for all of this time. I hope the people that forced him out are aware of the blood on their hands!
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