{"id":114221,"date":"2024-10-15T00:40:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-14T17:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=114221"},"modified":"2024-10-15T00:40:00","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T17:40:00","slug":"vial-that-contained-nerve-agent-that-killed-uk-woman-contained-enough-poison-to-kill-thousands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=114221","title":{"rendered":"Vial that contained nerve agent that killed UK woman contained enough poison to kill thousands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>LONDON (AP) \u2014 The lead counsel for a public inquiry into the 2018 death of a British woman poisoned by a Soviet-developed nerve agent said Monday that there was enough poison in the vial she unwittingly opened to kill thousands of people.<\/p>\n<p>Dawn Sturgess and her partner collapsed after they came into contact with a discarded perfume bottle containing <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/ap-top-news-health-europe-international-news-758d55ae39ae54b007eead7691c2b890\">the nerve agent Novichok<\/a><\/span> in the southwest England town of Amesbury. She had sprayed the contents of the bottle on her wrist and died days later. Her partner survived.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe evidence will suggest that this bottle \u2014 which we shall hear contained enough poison to kill thousands of people \u2014 must earlier have been left somewhere in a public place creating the obvious risk that someone would find it and take it home,\u201d lead counsel Andrew O\u2019Connor said.<\/p>\n<p>Their exposure came four months after a former Russian intelligence officer, <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/sergei-skripal\">Sergei Skripal, and his daughter<\/a><\/span> were sickened by Novichok in an attack in the nearby city of Salisbury.<\/p>\n<p>Britain has blamed Russian intelligence, but Moscow has denied any role. Russian President Vladimir Putin called Skripal, a double agent for the United Kingdom during his espionage days, <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/4bf4e51d0ca745be9cfb7b14f86b26a7\">a \u201cscumbag\u201d<\/a><\/span> of no interest to the Kremlin because he was exchanged in a spy swap in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>The Skripals won\u2019t testify during the inquiry out of fear for their safety.<\/p>\n<p>But in a witness statement to the inquiry, Skripal said that the attack was a shock because it was \u201cnot honorable\u2019\u2019 to kill people who had been exchanged.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had received a presidential pardon and was a free man with no convictions under Russian law. I never thought the Russian regime would try to murder me in Great Britain,\u201d Skripal said in a statement read by O\u2019Connor. \u201cThey could have killed me easily if they wanted to when I was in prison.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said he believed that Putin \u201cmust have at least given permission for the attack.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe Putin makes all important decisions himself,\u201d his statement said.<\/p>\n<p>Attorney Michael Mansfield, who was speaking for Sturgess\u2019 family and partner, said the evidence suggested a risk to Skripal was foreseeable. He said central questions for the inquiry are whether he and UK authorities recognized that he posed a threat to the community.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the attack could and should have been prevented by the UK authorities, Dawn\u2019s family and partner are entitled to know \u2013 so are the wider public; was there a failure to prevent a chemical weapons attack on UK soil?\u2019&#8217; he told the inquiry. \u201cWere countless members of the public put at risk, with the potential for hundreds or even thousands of deaths?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Heather Hallett, the coroner who held the 2018 inquest into Sturgess\u2019 death, said that a public inquiry was needed to conduct a complete look at how the woman died. Unlike inquests, which are routinely held in cases when the cause of death is unknown or if someone dies violently, public inquiries are allowed to consider sensitive intelligence material.<\/p>\n<h2>___<\/h2>\n<p>This story has been corrected to show that Sturgess died four months after the attack on the Skripals, not three months.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n  window.fbAsyncInit = function() {\n      FB.init({\n              appId : '870613919693099',\n          xfbml : true,\n          version : 'v2.9'\n      });\n  };\n  (function(d, s, id){\n     var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n     if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;}\n     js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n     js.src = \"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js\";\n     fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n   }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/britain-russia-poisoned-spy-nerve-agent-d7ae02a79d6be8ed3a1989cbfbf06a86\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON (AP) \u2014 The lead counsel for a public inquiry into the 2018 death of a British woman poisoned by a Soviet-developed nerve agent said Monday that there was enough &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=114221\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}