Novichok was put on Skripals’ front door while they were home, inquiry hears

Sergei Skripal told friends Putin would get him' if he returned home to Russia

A deadly nerve agent was applied to former spy Sergei Skripal's front door while he and his daughter, Yulia, were at home, a counter-terrorism chief has revealed.

The Skripals must have been just metres away when the door handle of his home in Salisbury was daubed with novichok, an inquiry into the 2018 poisonings has heard.