"Speaking on Thursday after the inquiry's findings were published, its chair, Anthony Hughes, a former senior judge, said Putin had authorised the mission to assassinate the former Russian spy Sergei Skripal. list of 3 itemsend of list The conduct of the Russian leader and the alleged GRU agents who planted the poison was astonishingly reckless, Hughes added. The Kremlin continues to deny its involvement in the incident."
"Skripal, a former GRU officer imprisoned in Russia for spying for the United Kingdom, came to the UK after being released in a 2010 spy swap. Eight years later, he and his daughter Yulia were discovered unconscious on a park bench in Salisbury, poisoned by the Russian nerve agent Novichok that had been daubed on the door handle of their homes. They survived after intensive hospital treatment and now live under protection."
"However, Dawn Sturgess, 44, a mother-of-three, died four months later, shortly after spraying herself with what she thought was perfume from a discarded bottle, but which turned out to contain the deadly chemical. Sturgess was the entirely innocent victim of the cruel and cynical acts of others, said Hughes, the inquiry chair. Lawyer Andrew O'Connor told the public inquiry into her death, which started last year, that she was unwittingly caught up in an illegal and outrageous international assassination attempt."
Anthony Hughes, chair of the public inquiry, concluded that Vladimir Putin authorised the mission to assassinate former GRU officer Sergei Skripal. The alleged GRU agents who planted Novichok were described as astonishingly reckless and the UK government sanctioned the GRU. Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were poisoned in Salisbury in March 2018 after Novichok was daubed on a door handle; they survived intensive hospital treatment and now live under protection. Dawn Sturgess, 44, died four months later after spraying a discarded perfume bottle that contained Novichok. The bottle contained enough nerve agent to poison thousands. The Kremlin denies involvement.
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