Dawn Sturgess’s family condemn security ‘failure’ that led to novichok poisonings

Lawyers for relatives of woman who died told inquiry warnings should have issued after attack on Sergei Skripal

There was an abject failure" from the UK government to put in basic security measures to protect the former Russian spy Sergei Skripal - and therefore keep the wider public safe, the family of a woman who died in the Wiltshire novichok poisonings has said.

Lawyers for Dawn Sturgess's relatives argued the UK authorities should have anticipated Skripal would have been a target, especially as he appeared to have continued to work with western security agencies after he was pardoned by Russia, but left him a sitting duck".