Vladimir Putin is ‘morally responsible’ for the death of Dawn Sturgess – at the hands of Novichok brought from Russia to the UK in a Nina Ricci perfume bottle, a new report has found.

When the 44-year-old unknowingly sprayed herself with the military-grade nerve agent before collapsing in a flat in Amesbury, in Wiltshire, she did not know she had been caught in the crossfire of an ‘outrageous’ deliberate attack on UK soil – orchestrated by the Kremlin.

The British government previously blamed Russia for the assassination attempt on former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, in Salisbury in March 2018.

But now the Dawn Sturgess inquiry – which was ordered by former home secretary Priti Patel in 2021 and held over seven weeks between October and December last year – has backed up

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