Salisbury poisoning victim Sergei Skripal believes Vladimir Putin personally ordered the Novichok attack on him and his daughter Yulia, the former spy has told the inquiry into Dawn Sturgess ’s death.

Former spy Sergei Skripal, his daughter Yulia and then-police officer Nick Bailey were poisoned in Salisbury, Wiltshire, in March 2018.

In March 2018, a Russian double agent who had been living in Salisbury after defecting was found collapsed on a bench along with his daughter in The Maltings shopping centre. Former Russian spy and defector Sergei Skripal has told a British inquiry he believes Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered his Novichok poisoning.

A public inquiry in Britain into the killing of a woman in a suspected Russian nerve agent attack in 2018 heard from her mother Tuesday of the intelligence, humor and kindness of her daughter.

Kremlin blamed for deadly attack, while hearing told nerve agent in perfume bottle that killed Dawn Sturgess strong enough to slay thousands

As well as with the aim of helping the family “grieve the loss of their loved one, and come to terms with her death”, barrister Michael Mansfield KC warned that openness in the inquiry will be “of great importance” in countering the “huge amount” of Russian disinformation about Salisbury.

Russian president Vladimir Putin authorised the Novichok murder attempt on former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia, in an operation which killed an innocent British woman Dawn Sturgess,

Former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal believes Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered his Novichok poisoning, an inquiry into the death of a woman who was unwittingly poisoned by the nerve agent was told on Monday.