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Josh Payne

Dismissive response to poisoning suggestions ‘disappointing’, top officer says

The home of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal in Salisbury, Wiltshire, in 2018 (Jonathan Brady/PA) - (PA Archive)

Counter-terrorism police’s “dismissive” response to suggestions that an ex-Russian spy may have been poisoned was “extremely disappointing”, a top officer has said.

Commander Dominic Murphy, head of the Metropolitan Police’s Counter Terrorism Command, said the officer who took calls on the evening of March 4 2018 had not “necessarily performed to the standard that we would have expected from all of our officers”.

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