A government official has given evidence to the inquiry into the death of Dawn Sturgess in 2018.
Russian President Vladimir Putin would have authorised the assassination attempt on Sergei Skripal in Salisbury in 2017, a senior UK government official has said.
"There are many ways in which you could have ambiguity in the mind of an investigating authority as to whether someone had died naturally, or how they had died," he said."That's why I believe it wasn't intended to remain covert entirely - it was meant to act as a warning in my view." Ms Sturgess, 44, died on 8 July 2018 after she was exposed to Novichok, which was left in a discarded perfume bottle in nearby Amesbury.
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