London, July 18: Police today said a body found in central England matches the description of David Kelly, the government adviser named as the possible source for the BBC's report claiming the government "sexed up" a key intelligence dossier on Iraq.
"The body found matches the description of David Kelly, but the body has not yet been formally identified," a Thames Valley Police spokesman said,
Earlier, police had reported finding a man's body eight kms from Kelly's home.
Fifty-nine-year-old Kelly went missing from his home in Abingdom, Oxfordshire, yesterday afternoon, after telling his wife he was going for a walk, the Thames Valley Police said.
Kelly's family contacted the police when he had failed to return by 2345 hours yesterday, two days after he gave evidence to a parliamentary inquiry into the dossier affair.
Bureau Report
