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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Steven Morris

‘Bin surfer’ may have found novichok bottle minutes after agents dumped it, inquiry hears

Dawn Sturgess
Dawn Sturgess died in 2018 after being exposed to the novichok nerve agent that had been discarded in a perfume bottle following the attack on Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia. Photograph: Metropolitan Police/PA

A “bin surfer” may have found a fake perfume bottle containing a deadly nerve agent just minutes after it was discarded by agents trying to assassinate former Russian spy Sergei Skripal, a police counter-terrorism chief has said.

A CCTV still, revealed for the first time at the Wiltshire poisonings inquiry, shows Charlie Rowley apparently on the hunt for valuables in charity shop bins in Salisbury city centre shortly after the Russian suspects were in the area.

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