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Josh Payne

Ex-army nurse says allegations role was linked to Novichok poisoning ‘malicious’

Personnel in hazmat suits work to secure a tent covering a bench in the Maltings shopping centre in Salisbury, where former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were found critically ill (Andrew Matthews/PA) - (PA Archive)

A former chief nurse of the British Army, who was one of the first to attend to Sergei and Yulia Skripal after they were poisoned with Novichok, has said any suggestions that her role was connected to the incident are “malicious”.

Alison McCourt said she had coincidentally visited Salisbury with her family on March 4 2018, because her children had wanted to go to a Nando’s.

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