Shocking timeline of evil toxins

MARCH 4, 2.20PM: Sergei Skripal and daughter Yulia arrive at Zizzi restaurant, Salisbury, after visiting The Mill pub, and stay until 3.35pm. MARCH 4, 4.15PM: Emergency services called after pair found slumped on a bench. MARCH 14: The UK expels 23 Russian diplomats after PM Theresa May says Russia is “culpable” for the poisoning. MARCH 17: Russia retaliates by expelling the same number of British diplomats. MARCH 22: Det Sgt Nick Bailey, ill after attending the incident, discharged from hospital. MARCH 28: Detectives believe the pair were poisoned with a nerve agent at the front door of Mr Skripal’s Salisbury home. APRIL 9: Yulia out of hospital and taken to a secure location. JUNE 30: Dawn Sturgess and Charlie Rowley ill at a property in Amesbury, eight miles from Salisbury, taken to hospital. JULY 4: Police declare “major incident” after revealing that Ms Sturgess and Mr Rowley have been exposed to an “unknown substance”. Cordons put up in several locations across Amesbury and Salisbury. Tests show they were exposed to novichok, cops unsure if it was from the Skripals’ batch. JULY 5: Home Secretary Sajid Javid accuses the Russian state of using Britain as a “dumping ground for poison”, and demands the Kremlin explains the two episodes. JULY 6: Investigators search Ms Sturgess’s building. JULY 7: A police officer at hospital over possible exposure to novichok – he later tests negative. JULY 8: Mr Javid says no fresh sanctions against Russia over the attacks. Ms Sturgess dies after novichok exposure. JULY 21: Mr Rowley out of

hospital.