Novichok in perfume bottle that killed Dawn Sturgess was 'enough to kill thousands', inquiry hears

The 44-year-old died in July 2018 after being caught in the 'crossfire of an illegal and outrageous international assassination attempt', the inquiry into her poisoning heard.

The amount of novichok in a perfume bottle that killed Dawn Sturgess in 2018 was enough to kill thousands of people, the public inquiry into her poisoning has heard. The 44-year-old died after she 'unwittingly applied' the nerve agent to her skin following the discovery of the container in Amesbury, Wiltshire, in July of that year, Andrew O'Connor KC told the hearing.

Mr O'Connor said a 'particularly shocking feature' of Sturgess's death was that she 'unwittingly applied the poison to her own skin'. He added: 'She was entirely unaware of the mortal danger she faced because the highly toxic liquid had been concealed - carefully and deliberately concealed - inside a perfume bottle.

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