Murder mystery Glushkov may have known his killer

A Russian businessman murdered at his south London home may have known his killer, it emerged after police found no evidence of a forced entry.

Nikolai Glushkov, 68, a fierce critic of Vladimir Putin, was apparently strangled in New Malden on March 12.

Scotland Yard launched a murder inquiry, led by Counter Terrorism Command after it was found that Mr Glushkov had died from “compression to the neck”. Reports later claimed that he had died before being hanged in a staged suicide.

Police said there was no evidence to suggest a link between his death and the nerve agent attack on Sergei Skripal, the ex-russian spy, and his daughter, Yulia.