Brits focus on poisoned spy
BRITISH government security ministers held an emergency meeting Saturday to discuss the poisoning of a Russian who spied for Britain as police backed by soldiers continued to search the English city where he was attacked with a nerve agent.
Home Secretary Amber Rudd said after the meeting it was still “too early” to say with certainty who was behind the poisoning that left former Russian military intelligence agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter in critical condition.
Rudd said the investigation has been painstaking and involved more than 250 counterterrorism officers. More than 240 pieces of evidence have been collected, and 200 witnesses have been identified, she said.
“I want to stress that they are proceeding with speed and professionalism,” said Rudd, who oversees domestic security. “We are putting in enormous resources to ensure that they have all the support that they need to do that.”
The meeting was similar to the ones convened after extremist attacks and other threats to Britain’s national security.
It covered the latest and intelligence reports Salisbury. police from HUNDREDS of NYPD officers and supporters flooded a Staten Island church Saturday to honor two detectives killed in an undercover gun buy 15 years ago.
Detectives Rodney Andrews, 34, and James Nemorin, 36, were executed while seated in the front of a car in Staten Island in March 2003.
“Time does not heal all wounds,” NYPD Chief of Patrol Terence Monahan told the parishioners inside St. Peter’s Church in New Brighton, according to the Staten Island Advance.
“Time also doesn’t diminish our solemn promise to never forget.”
The packed crowd included the children of the slain detectives; the men left behind a total of five kids.
Cop killer Ronell Wilson was convicted of the murders and sentenced to death by lethal injection in 2007.
The sentence was overturned due to prosecutorial error.
Wilson, a member of a murderous drug gang, was again sentenced to death by a different jury in 2013.
But he was removed from death row in 2016 after a federal judge ruled that he was ineligible for execution because he was intellectually disabled.
Brooklyn prosecutors announced last year that they would not be challenging the ruling.