London, July 6 : British weapons inspector David Kelly was writing a book exposing highly damaging government secrets before his mysterious death.

He was intending to reveal that he warned Prime Minister Tony Blair there were no weapons of mass destruction anywhere in Iraq weeks before the British and American invasion.

London, May 13 : The darkest day of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair's political life was when one of his closest confidants, David Kelly, committed suicide over Iraq War-related evidence that put him in poor light, says Cherie Blair.

She described the moment her husband received the news of the death as quite awful.

"As I watched Tony hand back the phone, I saw him slump into his seat. From sitting upright, he just crashed. David Kelly was dead, he said [...] It was awful," she wrote in her memoirs, parts of which are being serialised in The Times.

"I have never seen Tony so distraught and I felt helpless to do anything.