Soldiers take apart novichok hit house

TROOPS in gas masks and full-body camouflage yesterday started dismantling the home of ex-russian spy Sergei Skripal, ten months after he and daughter Yulia were poisoned there with novichok nerve agent.

They will seal and remove every item in the semidetached home in Salisbury and its roof will be replaced to make it habitable. The Skripals are at a secret location.

A neighbour said: “It doesn’t feel like they’re telling us the full story when they’re walking about outside in gas masks.”