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Josh Payne

Counter-terror police ‘left Salisbury officers feeling they were overreacting’

Counter-terrorism police expressed concerns that Wiltshire Police were removing officers from the cordon guarding Sergei Skripal’s home (Jonathan Brady/PA) - (PA Archive)

Counter-terrorism police left officers in Salisbury feeling as if they were “overreacting and completely making things up” when they suggested an ex-Russian spy may have been poisoned.

An email from April 2021 from Wiltshire Police Inspector Gill Hughes said special branch had been “very dismissive” of the information provided about Sergei Skripal’s poisoning by the force’s control room.

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