Dawn Sturgess, a women from Amesbury, UK, has just died of poisoning from a nerve agent, the same Russian-developed “Novichok” agent that was used to poison Sergei Skirpal and his daughter. Sturgess and her partner Charlie Rowley, who is currently hospitalized with the same type of poisoning, lived 8 miles from the Skirpals.

https://news.sky.com/story/dawn-sturgess-who-was-exposed-to-novichok-in-amesbury-dies-11430667

Apparently they were poisoned after touching an object contaminated with the nerve agent, but what the object was and where it was hasn’t been determined.

I just find this story so bizarre. It’s hard not to think the poisoning of the Skirpals isn’t connected to this (perhaps some areas were still contaminated from the Skirpal poisoning and Sturgess unwittingly touched something in a contaminated area). As for whether the Russian government is involved, I wouldn’t put it past them.

Topics: poison, England, Russia, death, murder