There was an “abject failure” from the UK government to put in basic security measures to protect the former Russian spy Sergei Skripal – and therefore keep the wider public safe, the family of a woman who died in the Wiltshire novichok poisonings has said.
Lawyers for Dawn Sturgess’s relatives argued the UK authorities should have anticipated Skripal would have been a target, especially as he appeared to have continued to work with western security agencies after he was pardoned by Russia, but left him a “sitting duck”.
