He’s in a bad way... his whole body was shutting down
NOVICHOK VICTIM STRUCK DOWN BY KILLER BUG
NOVICHOK victim Charlie Rowley was last night feared to be fighting deadly meningitis, the Sunday People can reveal.
Charlie, 45, is back in the same hospital where he and girlfriend Dawn Sturgess were treated after being poisoned by the Russian nerve agent.
Dawn, 44, died from the same poison used in the attempted killing of Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Salisbury, Wilts.
There are now fears that Charlie could face life-changing injuries from the illness, which it is feared came as a result of his body being run down by the novichok attack.
In an exclusive interview with the Sunday People his brother Matthew, 47, said yesterday: “I spoke to the nurse in charge and she said they think it’s meningitis.
“That’s what he’s being treated for at the moment, but they’re still doing tests to find out more information.
“I don’t think they know which type of meningitis it is yet.
“It looks like he got it from his body being run down by the novichok. I think he got released too early.”
Charlie is being monitored round the clock by a dedicated team of medics – eight days after being readmitted to the intensive care unit at Salisbury District Hospital where he and Dawn were first treated for novichok poisoning.
Paramedics rushed to Charlie’s new home in Amesbury, Wilts, last Friday after he managed to dial 999 when he was going temporarily blind.
Threatening
Matthew said: “He was in a bad way and I wasn’t sure he was going to make it. All of his systems seemed to be shutting down.
“He can see again now but he’s still got double vision.
“I don’t know much about meningitis, but it shuts down the organs and you can lose limbs and different things.
“I don’t know if that’ll happen