Russian poison target can’t visit wife’s grave

BY ADAM ASPINALL NOVICHOK victim Sergei Skripal is “heartbroken” at not visiting his wife’s grave on what would have been her 66th birthday.

Skripal, 67, tends the plots of wife Liudmila, 59, and son Alexander, 43, buried in Salisbury, said a friend.

But the ex-spy and daughter Yulia, 33, have been at a secret location since being released from hospital after a bid to kill them failed.

Liudmila died of cancer in 2012 and Alexander in 2017, in unknown circumstances.

A friend said: “He loved spending time with his loved ones – he’ll be heartbroken he cannot go back.”

Flowers on the graves were, at one point, thought to have been used in the March novichok attack, which resulted in the death of Dawn Sturgess, 44, last July.