2. Poison Perfume
Description
More people fall ill from Novichok poisoning.
It’s four months since the nerve agent attack on former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia. Salisbury is starting to return to normal and then, it happens again.
Local mum Dawn Sturgess is given a bottle of perfume that contains the deadly chemical Novichok.
Days later, Dawn dies in hospital leaving her family and friends wondering how she was poisoned with a Russian-made chemical weapon.
Presenters: Andy Howard, Marie Lennon
Senior Reporter: Dan O’Brien
Producers: Andy Howard, Marie Lennon, Tom Ryan, Dan O'Brien, Rachael Smith
Executive Producers: Mary Sanders, Naomi Wordley
Consultant: Jake Williams
Commissioning Editor: Alistair Miskin
When Sergei and Yulia Skripal were poisoned with a nerve agent, police faced one of the most complex investigations in their history. They had to trace a weapon which they could neither see nor smell, but it could kill thousands. In this episode, we hear how they checked everything from coins to...
Published 11/15/24
When Dawn Sturgess and Charlie Rowley were taken to hospital, the emergency services tried to piece together what had happened to them. We hear how they questioned whether it was a coincidence that they had treated two people for nerve agent poisoning four months earlier or whether the events...
Published 11/13/24