Irish Sunday Mirror

FOR JUSTICE ONE YEAR ON

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Ewan Hope outside Salisbury Cathedral Dawn’s ashes are in a wicker box at Ewan’s grandparen­ts’ home, surrounded by photos, candles and a white cuddly toy she had as a child.

He adds: “I would like to scatter the ashes at a place I can go to and have vivid memories of Mum and feel close to her.

“I talk to her and whenever I make big decisions I hear her voice in my head telling me what to do.”

Ewan remains haunted by the CCTV

Turkey, has worked as a manager and chef at nearby Jenny’s Restaurant for the last two years.

The Skripals walked past the diner just minutes before police were called.

Okan said: “At first business was very bad. We had to lose two members of staff straight after it happened because it was so quiet.

“After four months things got better, but there are still not as many tourists. I think they’re still images of the suspects. Telling of the first time he saw them on the news, he says: “I was so angry... they looked so smug and happy with themselves.

“But I felt a sense of relief as well because I thought something would happen and that they would be caught. Now I feel like we’ve been lied to. The

scared to visit. But I’m not worried any more.

“I don’t think there is any threat and the business is back to normal, but our customers are all locals rather than tourists.”

Around €3.5million has so far been given to Wiltshire Council by the Government following the novichok incidents in Salisbury and nearby Amesbury, where victim Dawn Sturgess lived.

A total of 120 businesses have strange thing now is we know who killed Mum, the evidence is there and we know how it happened, but we can’t get them to face justice. It’s really frustratin­g.

“I feel I have to try and move on and put it behind me, but at the same time I don’t want to because I want justice for Mum first.

“I feel like I’m never going to be able to get the closure I need to be able to move

had support from the recovery fund. Local MP John Glen said: “This has obviously been a difficult period but with the support we’ve had we can move on.

“This is a defiant place, with strong military traditions and an immense sense of civic pride.

“People here are resilient and they don’t want to be thought of as victims.

“If you’ve ever thought about coming, come now.” Sergei Skripal and his daughter Tulia on and that it’s going to upset me for the rest of my life.”

Mishkin and Chepiga, both 39, were widely ridiculed for their claim they were in Salisbury as tourists.

They have been charged in their absence by UK counter-terror detectives over the poisonings. The Skripals may move to a new life in the US at UK taxpayers’ expense.

patrick.hill@mirror.co.uk

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