A detective inspector said the decision to search the Skripals’ home after they were poisoned with Novichok “still haunts me”, after a police officer also became contaminated with the nerve agent.
Detective Inspector Ben Mant of Wiltshire Police told the Dawn Sturgess Inquiry on Monday that it was his decision for a search to be carried out at the home of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal in Salisbury in March 2018.
