Perfume bottle with nerve agent that killed Dawn Sturgess ‘contained enough poison to kill thousands’
The lead counsel for a public inquiry into the 2018 death of a British woman poisoned by a Soviet-developed nerve agent said Monday that there was enough poison in the vial she unwittingly opened to kill thousands of people.
Their exposure came four months after a former Russian intelligence officer, Sergei Skripal, and his daughter were sickened by Novichok in an attack in the nearby city of Salisbury.Mother’s chilling theory as missing kids re-emerge after 3 years in New Zealand wilderness with father Britain has blamed Russian intelligence, but Moscow has denied any role. Russian President Vladimir Putin called Skripal, a double agent for the United Kingdom during his espionage days, a “scumbag” of no interest to the Kremlin because he was exchanged in a spy swap in 2010.But in a witness statement to the inquiry, Skripal said that the attack was a shock because it was “not honorable” to kill people who had been exchanged.
“If the attack could and should have been prevented by the UK authorities, Dawn’s family and partner are entitled to know – so are the wider public; was there a failure to prevent a chemical weapons attack on UK soil?” he told the inquiry.
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