Porton Down death inquest opens

[muriel_volestrangler]

A second inquest into the death of a soldier during defence experiments at Porton Down more than 50 years ago has opened.

Ronald Maddison was 20 when he died after he was reportedly exposed to chemicals at the Ministry of Defence laboratories in Wiltshire in 1953.
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LAC Maddison was the fourth to have a piece of uniform material loosely wrapped around his left arm and 20 drops of 10mg of Sarin applied to it with a pipette.
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But after an August 1953 report into the events the dosage used in Sarin trials was lowered to only five milligrammes put on to clothing and skin under the new guidelines and testing resumed.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wiltshire/3687407.stm

I don't know why they bother saying 'reportedly' exposed - it seems an established fact that he was.