Nick Bailey had been speaking for 40 minutes about what had happened to him when he said, “as soon as I started to forgive myself …”, but he was unable to finish his sentence and had to leave the lecture theatre.
You might not remember Nick – even if the actor Rafe Spall played him in BBC1’s The Salisbury Poisonings in 2020 – but he’s the former Detective Sergeant who, on March, 2018, opened the front door to the house where Sergei and Yulia Skripal had once lived, and in doing so was poisoned by the weapons-grade chemical Novichok which had been smeared on the handle by two Russian agents.
Nick would spend the next 17 days in hospital, fearing the worst.
