Poison victim told: Girlfriend is dead
Charlie Rowley NOVICHOK victim Charlie Rowley woke from a coma to be told his girlfriend was dead, his brother revealed yesterday.
Matthew Rowley, 47, said he was shocked to see how “weak and skeletal” Charlie was after fighting off the nerve agent that killed mum-of-three Dawn Sturgess.
It is believed the couple, of Amesbury, Wilts, came into contact with leftover poison from the attempted assassination of Sergei Skripal, 66, and his daughter Yulia, 33, in nearby Salisbury in March.
And Metropolitan Police anti-terror chief Neil Basu admitted at a public meeting earlier that the Novichok could last for 50 years in a sealed container.
Matthew visited Charlie, 45, after he woke on Monday following 10 days in intensive care at Salisbury General Hospital. Matthew said: “It was quite shocking. He’s not A MONSTER crocodile weighing 95 stone has been caught after an eight-year hunt in Australia.
The 15ft beast, said to be the Charles I know. He’s talking, making sense, but he’s like a skeleton. I hardly recognised him but he will get better.”
Speaking of breaking the news about Dawn’s death, Matthew said: “He had his life with his girlfriend. I didn’t want to upset him, he was tearful, so I changed the subject.”
Scotland Yard said officers had a “brief ” chat to Charlie about how he and Dawn got contaminated. At a NATO dinner in Brussels last night, Theresa May urged Donald Trump to tackle Vladimir Putin over the poisonings. around 60 years old, was trapped by rangers near Katherine, in the Northern Territory.
The animal was removed to “help prevent human interaction”, the Parks and Wildlife department said.
It will be rehomed in a crocodile farm.