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Vladimir Putin has been blamed for the death of Dawn Sturgess in a Salisbury Novichok poisoning, according to a UK inquiry.

The mother-of-three, 44, died three weeks after spraying herself with a bottle containing the deadly nerve agent in July 2018. Her partner, Charlie Rowley, survived, as did former spy Sergei Skripal, his daughter Yulia, and DS Nick Bailey.

Lord Hughes, chairman of the inquiry, described the attack as a “public demonstration of Russian state power for both international and domestic impact.”

He added: "I have concluded that the operation to assassinate Sergei Skripal must have been authorised at the highest level by President Putin.

Salisbury Novichok poisoning victim Charlie Rowley (Image: Sunday Mirror)

"I therefore conclude that all those i

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