Lord Hutton is probing the circumstances behind the July suicide of the former UN arms inspector, which hurled Prime Minister Tony Blair into the worst crisis of his six years in power.
Summoned to appear today is Greg Dyke, director general of the BBC, which found itself in a bitter row with Downing Street after it aired a report in May alleging that Blair's government had "sexed up" intelligence on Iraq.
The Ministry of Defence subsequently exposed Kelly as the source of the report - a move which, according to evidence given to Hutton by his widow and others, left him shattered.
Dyke is expected to be grilled today on the way that top brass of the world's biggest and best-known public broadcaster reacted to Downing Street demands to retract the May 29 report by journalist Andrew Gilligan.
Besides Dyke, the inquiry is to hear today from two Ministry of Defence intelligence officials and a member of its research branch.
Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon, widely seen as the public figure with the most at stake from the inquiry, is expected to be called in the coming days.
Hutton is due to wind up his hearings at the Royal Courts of Justice in central London on September 25, after which he will retire to write up his findings.
They are not due out before late October. – Sapa – AFP.
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