Family of novichok victim raise concerns at lack of inquiry start date

Lawyers for relatives of Dawn Sturgess, who was killed in Wiltshire in 2018, call for process to be speeded up

The family of a woman killed in the Wiltshire novichok poisonings more than four years ago has expressed concern that there is still no start date for the full independent inquiry into her death despite it raising pressing national security issues.

Lawyers for relatives of Dawn Sturgess said there had been substantial" delays and called for the preparation process to be speeded up and for extra resources to be made available if necessary.