Public inquiry into death of Dawn Sturgess from Novichok poisoning concludes
Report makes numerous findings on how nerve agent concealed in perfume bottle lead to tragedy
The inquiry into the death of Dawn Sturgess has confirmed that she died from exposure to a Novichok nerve agent disguised in a perfume bottle which her partner had found in Salisbury. It concludes that the Novichok was most likely from the same batch as that involved in the attack on the Skripals four months earlier, and that it was produced in Russia.
The inquiry by Lord Hughes of Ombersley remarked that leaving behind this substantial amount of unused Novichok by Russian agents was ‘an astonishingly reckless thing to do, given the potential of even a small quantity to kill many thousands of innocent people’.