Daily Star

Skripal link to death riddles

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POLICE probing the poisoning of spy Sergei Skripal are investigat­ing two possible Russian assassinat­ions in the UK.

Detectives have reportedly found new evidence in the cases of Alexander Perepilich­nyy and Scot Young which are being looked into again.

Businessma­n Alexander,

44, collapsed outside his Surrey home in 2012 after eating a Russian soup.

Two years later Scot was found impaled on railings at his central London home.

The Dundee-born businessma­n, who had worked in Moscow, was friends with prominent critics of Russian president Vladimir Putin.

According to police records, Scot rang them in

2009 saying he was going to be assassinat­ed by the Russian Mafia.

In 2015, a coroner said his death could not be ruled as suicide due to insufficie­nt evidence.

His family maintain he was forced out of a window at his home.

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