Reporter who 'sexed up' story quits BBC
Last Updated Fri, 30 Jan 2004 15:33:41
LONDON - Andrew Gilligan resigned from the BBC on Friday. He's the reporter at the centre of a journalism storm that brought the venerable broadcaster into disrepute in the David Kelly affair.
Gilligan left his job two days after the report of the Hutton inquiry cleared the British government of wrongdoing in events leading up to the arms expert's death last summer. Instead, Lord Hutton criticized the BBC's news-gathering operation for a May 2003 radio story that accused Prime Minister Tony Blair's administration of "sexing up" the intelligence file that made the case for Britain to join the U.S.-led war against Iraq.