The sudden death of the British microbiologist David Kelly was given in the Hutton Report to that an existing artery next to the finger had been sectioned meñique of the left hand shortly after ingesting an overdose of the drug Co-proxamol and that third parties in their death did not take part.

Three years after the publication of this report journalist Sharon Churcher, of Daily Mail, reveals that the testimony of Mai Peterson, a American translator who knew Nelly in 1998 while she worked in the equipment of the UN that realised inspection of arms in Iraq, denies the official version.

Peterson affirms that months before the disappearance of Kelly it observed that the scientist had difficulties to even use the right hand in simple tasks, like cutting a fillet. Kelly him explió that years back had undergone a serious wound in the right elbow, an injury that, according to Peterson, it prevented him to have the force necessary to make the cut that caused the death to him.

Peterson was interrogated by the police to clarify the case and informed on the difficulties of Kelly with its right hand, but this detail was not including in the report. After his publication it began to receive death threats, possibly related to his work next to Kelly in Iraq.

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