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PORTON DOWN MAN 'UNLAWFULLY KILLED'
The death of a 20-year-old RAF engineer who underwent gas tests at Porton Down military base has been ruled as unlawful killing.
Leading Aircraft Ronald Maddison, from Consett, Co Durham, took part in secret nerve gas tests at the base in Wiltshire in 1953.
He died after having drops of Sarin put on his arm in what he and others thought were harmless experiments.
Human volunteers took part in the nerve gas tests between 1939 and 1989.
An inquest jury sitting at Trowbridge took five hours to reach its verdict after hearing 64 days of evidence.
It could now open the door for other service personnel to sue the Ministry of Defence, say lawyers.
An earlier inquest into Mr Maddison's death reached a verdict of misadventure, which was overturned by Lord Chief Justice Lord Woolf.
at this establishment,Thereby belaying the assertions of some that i am a "silly" person.
PORTON DOWN MAN 'UNLAWFULLY KILLED'
The death of a 20-year-old RAF engineer who underwent gas tests at Porton Down military base has been ruled as unlawful killing.
Leading Aircraft Ronald Maddison, from Consett, Co Durham, took part in secret nerve gas tests at the base in Wiltshire in 1953.
He died after having drops of Sarin put on his arm in what he and others thought were harmless experiments.
Human volunteers took part in the nerve gas tests between 1939 and 1989.
An inquest jury sitting at Trowbridge took five hours to reach its verdict after hearing 64 days of evidence.
It could now open the door for other service personnel to sue the Ministry of Defence, say lawyers.
An earlier inquest into Mr Maddison's death reached a verdict of misadventure, which was overturned by Lord Chief Justice Lord Woolf.