ST MARY'S CHURCH NEAR OXFORD WHERE GOVERNMENT SCIENTIST DR KELLY WILL BE BURIED, 2003-08-05 (photo)

St Mary's Church in Longworth, Oxfordshire, is seen on August 5, 2003, where British government scientist Dr David Kelly's funeral will take place on Wednesday. Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair's official spokesman Tom Kelly admitted on Tuesday smearing Dr Kelly, whose suicide over the case for war in Iraq sparked the worst crisis in Blair's premiership. Tom Kelly acknowledged that he had made comments in an off-the-record briefing comparing the scientist with fictional fantasist Walter Mitty, a character with delusions of grandeur created by U.S. author James Thurber, just hour's before the expert's funeral. REUTERS/Peter Macdiarmid PKM/MD