Missing persons a la Vince Foster?

Okay folks. Now this is getting spooky. The leak inside the British Government that told the BBC about the false information regarding uranium transfers from Niger into Iraq. . . was found dead.

The 59-year-old went missing from his home in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, at 3pm yesterday afternoon after telling his wife he was going for a walk, according to a Thames Valley police spokesman.

The body was discovered lying face down at 9.20am by a police search team at Harrowdown Hill, about five miles from Dr Kelly’s home in Abingdon.

No note has been found either at the scene or at Dr Kelly’s house. Responding to questions about whether the dead man had died of gunshot wounds, the spokesman said that Dr Kelly was not a licensed firearms holder.

Could it have been a suicide? Perhaps according to close friend and ITV journalist Tom Manigold:

Mr Mangold told ITV News: “She [Dr Kelly’s wife] told me he had been under considerable stress, that he was very very angry about what had happened at the committee, that he wasn’t well, that he had been to a safe house, he hadn’t liked that, he wanted to come home.

“She didn’t use the word depressed, but she said he was very very stressed and unhappy about what had happened and this was really not the kind of world he wanted to live in.”

Mr Mangold said Dr Kelly was a source to many reporters. His ambition was to help serious journalists understand a complex topic.

Stay tuned.