Couple ‘sprayed each other with Novichok’
Poisoned UK victims ‘thought bottle was perfume’
THE couple poisoned by Novichok last month found a perfume bottle containing the deadly nerve agent and sprayed it on themselves, according to a family member.
Dawn Sturgess, 44, died last week, and her partner Charlie Rowley, 45, is fighting for his life in hospital after they found the Russian nerve agent in Amesbury, near Salisbury, England.
Mr Rowley’s brother, Matthew, yesterday said the Novichok was in a bottle the couple picked up in a park.
Mr Rowley, 47, said: ‘All I know, all Charles has said so far, is that it was a perfume bottle or an aftershave bottle, and they picked it up in a park, and they sprayed themselves with it.
‘I’m going to talk to Charles later, and I’m trying my best to get the truth out of him about where he got it from, where it came from, what make it was. mental health has gone down as
‘It was nine days before they well.’ got ill that they picked it up.’ The Novichok is thought to
He added: ‘He’s not very have been left behind by the healthy. It’s still 50/50, and his would-be assassins who tar
GRAEME KEYES IS AWAY geted former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Salisbury in March.
Yesterday, the Russian military intelligence agency thought to have meddled in the 2016 American presidential elections was accused of being responsible for the poison attack on the Skripals.
Detectives believe it was carried out by the GRU – the agency that Mr Skripal served in for about 15 years. British officials
‘Closing in on individuals’
are ‘closing in on identifying the individuals they believe carried out the operation’, according to the New York Times.
The GRU is thought to be behind many of Russia’s most contentious acts.
Russia has denied any involvement in election meddling and the poisoning of British nationals.