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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Steven Morris

Novichok was put on Skripals’ front door while they were home, inquiry hears

The home of Sergei Skripal in Salisbury, Wiltshire, which remained under police cordon six months after he and his daughter, Yulia Skripal, were poisoned using the nerve agent novichok.
Sergei Skripal’s Wiltshire home remained under police cordon six months after he and his daughter were poisoned with novichok. Photograph: Jonathan Brady/PA

A deadly nerve agent was applied to former spy Sergei Skripal’s front door while he and his daughter, Yulia, were at home, a counter-terrorism chief has revealed.

The Skripals must have been just metres away when the door handle of his home in Salisbury was daubed with novichok, an inquiry into the 2018 poisonings has heard.

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