Dawn Sturgess died in Salisbury after being exposed to the nerve agent that had poisoned former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia months earlier
Clockwise from left: Dawn Sturgess, the box that carried the bottle filled with Novichok, and Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia An innocent British woman may have been “caught in the crossfire” of an international assassination attempt, a public inquiry into the Salisbury poisonings has heard.The inquiry into her death, which started at the Guildhall in Salisbury on Monday, was told that there was “enough poison to kill thousands of people” inside the bottle.
The counterfeit perfume box that was discovered by Charlie Rowley, who gave it, and the bottle inside, to his girlfriend Dawn Sturgess “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.
and that differences in the emergency response would not have saved her life, their lawyer Michael Mansfield KC told the inquiry.
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