Cops close in on identity of who tried to kill Skripals
Yulia & Sergei Skripal POLICE in the UK are close to their biggest breakthrough in the investigation into the attempted murder of Sergei and Yulia Skripal.
Officers believe they could get vital clues if they can find the item that poisoned Dawn Sturgess and Charlie Rowley in a new contamination with the nerve agent Novichok.
A senior security source told the Mirror yesterday: “It may reveal the delivery system of the Novichok, how it was administered to the door of the Skripals, how it was made active and crucially its chemical breakdown – which will tell police where exactly it came from.”
The March attack on exrussian spy Sergei and his daughter in Salisbury, Wilts, prompted the biggest Western expulsion of Russian diplomats since the Cold War.
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The new contamination could give a “treasure chest” of clues on the attackers’ ID.
The source added: “It is possible the intelligence operatives who did this, and I believe they are Russian, triggered the substance in some way, mixing it up or destabilising it, where these two people found the item.
”The discovery of this item, possibly a syringe, serves to keep the story public, projecting Russian power, while they deny it.
“And look at the timing, just as England plays in the World Cup in Russia and President Trump is days away from making his trip to the UK.
“In the Kremlin mind this is still a huge breakthrough – plausible deniability while everyone suspects Russia of pulling a fast one over MI5.” Charlie Rowley