The Hutton Inquiry

unofficial site with automatically reformatted transcripts | click here for the official site | contact me
note: transcripts are Crown Copyright and may not be used without Crown Copyright acknowledgement by third parties

Hearing Transcripts

October 13, 2003: Morning

Sir Kevin Tebbit

Ministry of Defence

October 13, 2003: Afternoon

Sir Kevin Tebbit

Ministry of Defence

September 25, 2003: Morning

Jeremy Gompertz QC

Counsel for the Kelly family

Jonathan Sumption QC

Counsel for the Government

September 25, 2003: Afternoon

Jonathan Sumption QC

Counsel for the Government

Andrew Caldecott QC

Counsel for the BBC

Heather Rogers QC

Counsel for Andrew Gilligan

James Dingemans QC

Counsel for the Inquiry

Closing statement by Lord Hutton

September 24, 2003: Morning

Patrick Lamb

Deputy Head of the Counter Proliferation Department FCO

Dr Bryan Wells

Director of Counter Proliferation and Arms Control, MOD

Gavyn Davies

BBC

September 24, 2003: Afternoon

Richard Hatfield

Personnel Director MOD

Dr Bryan Wells

Director of Counter Proliferation and Arms Control, MOD

Nick Rufford

Sunday Times, journalist

Wing Commander John Clark

Ministry of Defence

James Harrison

Ministry of Defence

Professor Keith Hawton

Psychiatrist

September 23, 2003: Morning

Godric Smith

Prime Minister's Press Office

Tom Kelly

Prime Minister's Press Office

John Scarlett

Cabinet Office

September 23, 2003: Afternoon

John Scarlett

Cabinet Office

Assistant Chief Constable Michael Page

Thames Valley Police

September 22, 2003: Morning

Lee Hughes

Hutton Inquiry Secretariat

Geoffrey Hoon MP

Secretary of State for Defence

September 22, 2003: Afternoon

Alastair Campbell

Prime Minister's Office

September 18, 2003: Morning

Richard Hatfield

Personnel Director MOD

Pamela Teare

Director of News, MoD

September 18, 2003: Afternoon

Andrew Gilligan

BBC Reporter

Pamela Teare

Director of News, MoD

Edward Wilding

Computer Investigator

Professor A J Sammes

Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Centre for Forensic Computing at Cranfield University

September 17, 2003: Morning

Andrew Gilligan

BBC Reporter

September 17, 2003: Afternoon

Richard Hatfield

Personnel Director MOD

Richard Sambrook

Head of News, BBC

September 16, 2003: Morning

Martin Howard

Deputy Chief of Defence Intelligence MOD

DC Graham Coe

Police Officer

Dr Nicholas Hunt

Forensic Pathologist

September 16, 2003: Afternoon

Dr Shuttleworth

Defence, Science & Technology Laboratory

Kate Wilson

Chief Press Officer, MoD

September 15, 2003: Morning

Counsel's opening statement

Tony Cragg

Air Marshal J French

September 15, 2003: Afternoon

Sir Richard Dearlove

Dr Richard Scott

Greg Dyke

September 4, 2003: Morning

Olivia Bosch

Colleague

Leigh Potter

Neighbour

Tom Mangold

Journalist

Richard Taylor

Special Advisor to Secretary of State for Defence

September 3, 2003: Morning

Richard Allan

Toxicologist

Assistant Chief Constable Page

Steven Macdonald

MOD

Dr Jones

September 3, 2003: Afternoon

Patrick Lamb

Deputy Head of the Counter Proliferation Department FCO

Dr Jones

Mr A

MOD

Mr Green

Forensic Biologist

September 2, 2003: Morning

Ruth Absalom

Neighbour

Dr Malcolm Warner

GP

Louise Holmes

Search team

Paul Chapman

Search team

PC Andrew Franklin

PC Martyn Sawyer

Sergeant Geoffrey Webb

September 2, 2003: Afternoon

PC Jonathan Martyn

Vanessa Hunt

Ambulance

David Bartlett

Ambulance

Barney Leith

Baha'i faith

Professor Hawton

Psychiatrist

September 1, 2003: Morning

Mrs Kelly

Family

Sarah Pape

Family

Rachel Kelly

Family

September 1, 2003: Afternoon

Professor Roger Avery

Friend

David Wilkins

Family

August 28, 2003: Morning

Tony Blair MP

Prime Minister

Gavyn Davies

BBC

August 28, 2003: Afternoon

Gavyn Davies

BBC

August 27, 2003: Morning

Geoff Hoon MP

Secretary of State for Defence

August 27, 2003: Afternoon

Wing Commander John Clark

Ministry of Defence

James Harrison

Ministry of Defence

Ann Taylor MP

Chair of Intelligence and Security Committee

August 26, 2003: Morning

Andrew MacKinlay MP

Foreign Affairs Select Committee

John Scarlett

Cabinet Office

August 26, 2003: Afternoon

John Scarlett

Cabinet Office

Sir David Omand

Cabinet Office

August 21, 2003: Morning

Donald Anderson MP

Foreign Affairs Select Committee

Nick Rufford

Sunday Times, journalist

James Blitz

Financial Times, journalist

August 21, 2003: Afternoon

Richard Norton-Taylor

Guardian, journalist

Peter Beaumont

The Observer, journalist

Tom Baldwin

The Times, journalist

Michael Evans

The Times, journalist

David Broucher

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Lee Hughes

Hutton Inquiry Secretariat

August 20, 2003: Morning

Sir Kevin Tebbit

Ministry of Defence

August 20, 2003: Afternoon

Godric Smith

Prime Minister's Press Office

Tom Kelly

Prime Minister's Press Office

August 19, 2003: Morning

Alastair Campbell

Prime Minister's Office

August 19, 2003: Afternoon

Alastair Campbell

Prime Minister's Office

August 18, 2003: Morning

Pam Teare

Ministry of Defence Press Office

Jonathan Powell

Prime Minister's Office

August 18, 2003: Afternoon

Jonathan Powell

Prime Minister's Office

Sir David Manning

Prime Minister's Office

August 14, 2003: Morning

Dr Bryan Wells

Director of Counter Proliferation and Arms Control, MOD

August 14, 2003: Afternoon

Martin Howard

Deputy Chief of Defence Intelligence MOD

Patrick Lamb

Deputy Head of the Counter Proliferation Department FCO

John Williams

Director of Communications, FCO

August 13, 2003: Morning

Susan Watts

BBC Reporter

Gavin Hewitt

BBC Reporter

August 13, 2003: Afternoon

Gavin Hewitt

BBC Reporter

Richard Sambrook

Head of News, BBC

August 12, 2003: Morning

Andrew Gilligan

BBC Reporter

August 12, 2003: Afternoon

Andrew Gilligan

BBC Reporter

Susan Watts

BBC Reporter

August 11, 2003: Morning

Terence Taylor

President and Executive Director for the International Institute of Strategic Studies (US)

Richard Hatfield

Personnel Director MOD

Patrick Lamb

Deputy Head of the Counter Proliferation Department FCO

August 11, 2003: Afternoon

Martin Howard

Deputy Chief of Defence Intelligence MOD

Patrick Lamb

Deputy Head of the Counter Proliferation Department FCO

Julian Miller

Chief of the Assessment Staff Cabinet Office.

hutton.softblade.com

Unofficial reformatted transcripts from the Hutton Inquiry

This site brings together the transcripts from the Hutton Inquiry, with simple navigation via sidebars showing hearings (most recent first, left) and witnesses (in alphabetical order, right).

Search transcripts

The full set of transcripts can be searched for a phrase typed into the box below. When viewing a transcript, you can search for a phrase in the current document by typing into the same box. The search results are highlighted in the text, and you can navigated between them using the numbers which appear to the right of the search box.

Format of transcripts

The transcripts are reformatted into two columns with questions from Lord Hutton and the Inquiry Counsel in the left hand column in red, and answers from witnesses in the right hand column (grey/black).

Links to evidence appear in blue.

Lord Hutton, Counsel and Witnesses are automatically identified by name before each question/answer.

The most recent files are automatically added as they appear on the official site.

Links to evidence (documents stored on the official site) are automatically provided, though they do not work for all files at present. You will need Adobe Reader to view these pdf files.

br>

Disclaimers etc.

Please notify me of any errors introduced by the automatic reformatting process.

The transcripts and other materials originating from the Hutton Inquiry are Crown Copyright and may not be used without Crown Copyright acknowledgement by third parties. You must refer to and acknowledge the original source (www.the-hutton-inquiry.org.uk) when quoting from the transcripts. Do not use them in a misleading context.

^Home | ^Top | Search All