Ex-SAS man claims former Russian agent Sergi Skripal is dead
AN ex-royal military policeman and author who says he previously identified the third Russian suspect in the Salisbury Novichok attack claims that Sergei Skripal is dead.
Graham Yuill, 65, believes the former spy has passed away after being exposed to the “DNA altering” nerve agent coupled with the fact he was “diabetic and overweight”.
Yuill claims Russian assassins sprayed the deadly nerve agent inside Skripal’s home having broken in through the rear kitchen door.
He has slammed official lines that Russian spies had smeared the front door handle with the killer nerve agent “as there was no guarantee Skripal would use it to close the door” during the attack in 2018.
Instead, Yuill claims the pair sneaked in through the rear kitchen door to smear Novichok on the fridge door handle, which the diabetic ex-spy would use daily for his insulin.
The former British soldier, from Glasgow, also says the lack of CCTV footage and eyewitness accounts of Russian hitmen Anatoliy Chepiga and Alexander Mishkin approaching the property debunks the official line Novichok was sprayed on the front door.
Yuill has even gone so far to suggest Skripal is now dead from the 2018 attack due to being “diabetic and overweight” alongside Russian sources telling him Novichok alters the body’s DNA to cause life-threatening illnesses two years after the exposure.
Former SAS man Yuill, who is said to have tipped off authorities on Lord Mountbatten’s assassination in 1979, identified the third suspect and ring leader of the attack, Denis Sergeev, months before the police in his book Putin’s Assassin: The Truth Behind The Salisbury Poison Attack.
On Tuesday police charged Denis Sergeev, who used the alias Sergey Fedotov during his time in the UK, with the attempted murder of Mr Skripal and his daughter Yulia, the grievous bodily harm of police officer Nick Bailey, and the use of Novichok as a chemical weapon.
The senior military intelligence officer is believed to have overseen the mission and to have delivered the deadly nerve agent to Anatoliy Chepiga and Alexander Mishkin, before returning to Moscow.
He blasted security services for being “asleep at the wheel” in the 2018 poisoning which saw Sergeev go unnoticed at Heathrow Airport and having been tipped off by Bulgarian intelligence.
Speaking of how he believes former Russian spy Sergei Skripal is dead, Graham said: “The anti-terrorist police don’t want to admit the attack was a textbook operation which was meticulously planned and executed.
“From my experience and knowing what I do, Skripal is dead.
He added: “It’s hard to envisage that Skripal, who was an overweight, elderly man suffering from type 1 diabetes, would be able to survive much longer after being contaminated by the deadliest nerve agent ever made.
“Even if Skripal were contaminated by the smallest amount of Novichok his chance of survival by now would be virtually zero.
“According to Russian scientists, Novichok has the potential to damage and alter the body’s DNA causing cancer and other life-threatening illnesses approximately two years after the exposure.”