UK INQUIRY INTO NOVICHOK POISONING DEATH BEGINS – Dawn Sturgess who died following the attempted murder of Sergei Skripal
The public inquiry into the death of a British woman who was killed by the Novichok nerve agent in 2018 will start on Monday, October 14.
In November 2021, Britain said it would hold a public inquiry into the death of Dawn Sturgess who died following the attempted murder of former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal.
Sturgess died from exposure to Novichok in July 2018 after her partner Charlie Rowley found a counterfeit perfume bottle which police believe had been used by Russian intelligence operatives to smuggle the poison into the country.
Skripal, who sold Russian secrets to Britain, and his daughter Yulia were found slumped unconscious on a public bench in the southern English city of Salisbury four months earlier.
They and a police officer who went to Skripal’s house were left critically ill in hospital from exposure to the military-grade nerve agent.
