Matrix man to speak at inquiry

A key figure in the arms-for- Iraq affair is to appear in public before the Scott inquiry next month to counter a former Government minister's criticism of him, it was announced last night.

Paul Henderson, who was managing director of Matrix Churchill, and a defendant in the aborted Matrix Churchill trial which led to the Scott inquiry, was angered by Lord Trefgarne's claim that he deceived him about machine tool exports to Iraq.