London, Sept 12: The Director General of the BBC, Greg Dyke, is to give evidence Monday when a judicial inquiry into the suicide of British weapons scientist David Kelly resumes, the inquiry said today. Dyke was not among the first batch of witnesses to appear before Lord Brian Hutton, the veteran jurist looking into the circumstances of Kelly's suicide in July, before the inquiry adjourned on September 4. Others called to testify Monday include two officials from the Ministry of Defence, for whom Kelly worked, and an official from the defence science and technology laboratory, the ministry's research branch. Details of witnesses to be called through September 25, when Hutton plans to start writing his report, were not disclosed.

Kelly, a respected former UN arms inspector in Iraq, took his life after he was exposed by the ministry of defence as the anonymous source of a BBC report in may alleging that Prime Minister Tony Blair's government "sexed up" intelligence in the run-up to the us-led war on Saddam Hussein's Iraq.


His suicide hurled Blair into his worst crisis in six years in power, and overshadowed a furious row between downing street and the public broadcaster over the latter's refusal to retract its report. Bureau Report