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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Steven Morris and Caroline Bannock

Salisbury poisoning: woman ‘foamed at the mouth’ after spraying novichok on wrists, inquiry told

CCTV still image showing Dawn Sturgess in a shop; she is wearing a white sleeveless summer dress and a straw hat with sunglasses balanced on it
The inquiry was shown CCTV footage of Dawn Sturgess in Salisbury on the day before she and Charlie Rowley fell ill. Photograph: ITV

The woman killed in the Salisbury novichok poisonings began foaming at the mouth and convulsing 10 or 15 minutes after unwittingly spraying the nerve agent on her wrists, an inquiry has heard.

Dawn Sturgess, 44, got into a bath with all her clothes on after becoming contaminated with novichok, which had been secreted in a fake perfume bottle that her boyfriend, Charlie Rowley, had given her, the inquiry into her death was told.

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