Son of poison victim in plea to Trump
The grieving son of Amesbury Novichok victim Dawn Sturgess has called on Donald Trump to raise his mother’s death with Vladimir Putin.
The US president, who is on the last day of his visit to the UK, is due to meet the Russian leader in Helsinki today.
Ewan Hope, 19, said he wants his mother’s killer, or killers, “to get what they deserve”.
“I don’t share Donald Trump’s politics and I’ll never be a supporter of his, but I would like him to raise mum’s case with the Russian president,” he told the Sunday Mirror.
“We need to get justice for my mum.”
The government has blamed Russia for the failed nerve agent attack on former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Salisbury in March.
Ms Sturgess, 44, and her partner, Charlie Rowley, fell ill in Amesbury, around eight miles from the Wiltshire city, on 30 June. It is believed they handled an item contaminated with the Russian-made chemical weapon.
Traces of the nerve agent were found in a small bottle in the Amesbury home of Mr Rowley, 45, who remains in a serious but stable condition.