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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Emily Dugan

Justice ‘highly unlikely’ over Salisbury novichok attack, says Theresa May

Dawn Sturgess
Dawn Sturgess died on 8 July 2018 after being given a discarded perfume bottle containing the chemical weapon. Photograph: Metropolitan police/PA

Theresa May has said “justice is highly unlikely” to come for the victims of the novichok attacks in Wiltshire, in an interview broadcast days before an inquiry opens into the Russian state poisonings.

The former prime minister said she hoped that the family and friends of Dawn Sturgess, who was killed in 2018 after she was exposed to the nerve agent, would find comfort from the inquiry into her death and feel that it had “got to the truth” of what happened.

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