Salisbury Novichok latest: Dawn Sturgess inquiry to reveal findings over Russian spy poisoning

Retired Supreme Court judge Lord Hughes of Ombersley is set to deliver his findings into the death of Dawn Sturgess, as well as the poisonings of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal, his daughter Yulia and police officer Nick Bailey.

Here is a timeline of events:

The Dawn Sturgess inquiry is set to publish its final report today.

It is expected to set out key findings deliver into the death of Ms Sturgess, as well as the poisonings of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal, his daughter Yulia and police officer Nick Bailey.

Journalists have been looking at the report this morning, and we will be able to bring you its key findings from midday.

Following this, there will be a statement from the inquiry’s chair Lord Hughes.

Later in the day, other organisations such as the ambulance service and counter-terrorism police are expected to give statements.

Dawn Sturgess, 44, died after being exposed to the chemical weapon which was left in a discarded perfume bottle in Amesbury, Wiltshire, in July 2018.

It followed the attempted murder of former spy Sergei Skripal, his daughter Yulia and then police officer Nick Bailey, who were poisoned in nearby Salisbury in March that year.

They were harmed when members of a Russian GRU military intelligence squad are believed to have smeared the nerve agent on Mr Skripal’s door handle.

All three survived, as did Ms Sturgess’s boyfriend Charlie Rowley, who had unwittingly given her the bottle containing “enough poison to kill thousands of people”.

In the months after he was poisoned, Mr Skripal told police he held Russian president Vladimir Putin responsible. He also believed that if he ever returned to Russia, Mr Putin would “get him”.

A public inquiry into the death of a woman who was poisoned by Russian nerve agent Novichok is set to be published today.

Dawn Sturgess, 44, died after being exposed to the chemical weapon which was left in a discarded perfume bottle in Amesbury, Wiltshire, in July 2018.

The then-home secretary Priti Patel ordered that the inquest into Ms Sturgess’s death be converted into a public inquiry in 2021.

The inquiry, which was chaired by retired Supreme Court judge Lord Hughes of Ombersley, held public hearings between October and December last year.