LONDON (AFP) - The British weapons expert at the centre of a row over the British government's Iraq arms dossier bled to death after apparently slashing his own wrist, police said.

After confirming that a body found Friday west of London had been formally identified as that of defence official David Kelly, a Thames Valley police spokesman said there was no evidence anyone else was involved.

"The cause of death was haemhoragging from a wound to his left wrist," the police spokesman said.

"The injury is consistent with having been caused by a bladed object.

"We have recovered a knife and an open packet of (painkilling) Co-Proxymol tablets at the scene. Whilst our inquiries are continuing there is no indication at this stage of any other party being involved."

Kelly, 59, was a Ministry of Defence consultant on biological weapons and former UN arms inspector in Iraq.

His body was found in a wooded area near his home in Oxfordshire on Friday, a day after he was reported missing by his family.

His disappearance came two days after he denied being the source of a BBC report that a February dossier on weapons of mass destruction, which was used to justified the war in Iraq had been "sexed up" by British government officials.

Prime Minister Tony Blair, currently in Japan, has promised a judicial inquiry into Kelly's death.

Now, lets put this in a different perspective here. What did he know that he could not tell? Was he threatened? Were ther even WMD at all and he knew it? Did he threaten to come forward? What do you think about this? Is this just another part of the conpiracy that start on 9/11?