Perfume bottle found by Novichok victim Dawn Sturgess could have killed 'thousands', inquiry hears

Thousands of people could have been killed by the Salisbury poisonings, an inquiry heard.

One person - mother-of-three Dawn Sturgess, 44 - died after a botched attempt by Russian agents to kill double agent Sergei Skripal months earlier.Ms Sturgess sprayed herself with the deadly nerve agent Novichok, believing it to be perfume, in July 2018.The perfume bottle carrying the Russian nerve agent that fatally poisoned Ms Sturgess contained "enough poison to kill thousands of people", the inquiry into her death was told.

"Moreover, the evidence will suggest that this bottle - which we shall hear contained enough poison to kill thousands of people - must earlier have been left somewhere in public place creating the obvious risk that someone would find it and take it home. "You may conclude, sir, that those who discarded the bottle in this way acted with a grotesque disregard for human life.

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