Novichok victim out of hospital

Novichok victim Charlie Rowley has been discharged from hospital, three weeks after being exposed to the nerve agent.

Salisbury District Hospital said he had been through an “appalling experience most of us could never imagine”.

Mr Rowley, 45, and his part- ner Dawn Sturgess, 44, collapsed at his house in Amesbury, Wiltshire, on 30 June, where police found a bottle containing the nerve agent.

Ms Sturgess later died on 8 July and a murder inquiry has been launched. Lorna Wilkinson, Salisbury District Hospital’s director of nursing, said the day was “tinged with sadness” after the death of Ms Sturgess. She added: “We continue to think both of Charlie and of Dawn’s family, and support them.”

The poisoning is thought to be linked to the attack on Russian ex-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in March.