He described the government scientist's death as a 'textbook' suicide and illustrated his opinion with evidence not heard at Lord Hutton's public inquiry into Dr Kelly's death. It has now come to light that Dr Hunt did not have authorisation to speak publicly about the post-mortem report and may have broken official guidelines again.

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Last night Mr McKinnon's mother Janis Sharp said: 'It's good to hear that David Blunkett has the honesty and decency to admit that mistakes were made about the extradition treaty with the U.S. and Europe and that he realises that he gave too much away.

'This has left British citizens especially vulnerable and the treaty is all too often being used frivolously and not for the serious crimes we were led to believe it was intended for. The past eight years of stress has ruined Gary's life and his mental health has deteriorated greatly. Our lives have also been ruined.'

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