Chemical weapons scientist,
Kelly was at the centre of the storm leading to the invasion of Iraq in 2003. He called into question the claims of the Blair government of the day "justifying" the "coalition" attack and later occupation of Saddam Hussein's dictatorship.
The Hutton Inquiry, struck instead of the more usual coroner's inquest, and chaired by Blair fixer Lord Hutton, declared doctor Kelly committed suicide in a public park using a paring knife and bottle of pain tablets.
It's a claim Kelly cousin, Wendy Wearmouth, a former nurse, says is "incredibly unlikely." She said suicide is entirely outside Kelly's character, and in contravention of his religious beliefs.
Wearmouth says;
"Whether David was my cousin or not I would never imagine that a man with his background, his knowledge, would slash his wrists, take painkillers. This is what teenage girls do. This is not what eminent scientists do. [...] If you knew the man it's totally against his whole way of being. He doesn't fall into a category of someone who would commit suicide and his religious beliefs alone would not allow him to kill himself."
The clamour in England to re-open the Kelly case, despite the government's 70 year embargo on the autopsy results, comes in the wake of
the Chilcot Inquiry. Chilcot is an attempt to, either get to the bottom of what led Britain into its Iraq entanglement, or as most believe it to be, the final rites of the burial of the fact Blair and Bush lied the nation to war, and more than a million died, so far.
David Kelly wasn't the first fatality of the Iraq war, not by a long chalk. By the time of his death July 17, 2003 thousands of Iraqis had been killed, maimed, and made homeless, and he feared millions more would follow if the phony machinations of the prime minister and his special friend in America were allowed to continue. He saw that prospect as an abomination, and his determination to forestall that terrible eventuality made him dangerous. His access to the media made that danger imminent.
It is this, cousin Wendy believes, and not the "stress" of the government's investigation of the WMD whistle blower that led to Kelly's untimely end.
She told the Daily Mail;
"From the day I heard he'd died I had an instinct that there was something very unusual about it and I don't believe the official explanation. [...] Looking back, was someone frightened that he was going to say more, that he had so much information? A man in his position would have been privy to a lot of things, and seen a lot of things, and I believe he was killed."
Kelly was a complication, sand in the gears of the engine of war, and is another of the obvious instances where the military-media complex was revealed, and "our" leaders exposed for the bald-faced liars they were and are. But did anyone really believe the WMD story?
With a new government in the U.K., the necessary illusions spun to bring forward the disaster in Iraq are one step closer to being made broadly known. From there, prosecution begs in the background, if not for the American party to this great crime, then perhaps for the British contingency.
It may be cold comfort to the friends, family, and colleagues of David Kelly, but his death, not the first, and certainly not the last, may be the most singularly important life sacrificed in the long horror of the Iraq invasion, if calls for a real investigation bear fruit, and the great unraveling of the matrix of lies that brought us to this sorry state of affairs is exposed in its ugly entirety.
Wendy Wearmouth sums it up, saying;
"A full coroner's inquest at which people give evidence under oath is the only way anyone can have a hope of knowing what really happened."
And after we know, then what?
Across the pond, in merry olde, the mysterious case of the conveniently dead witness to the decidedly inconvenient truths behind Tony Blair's and George W. Bush's Iraq war scheme had another moment in the media today. 
