Public inquiry opens in Britain in to death of woman caught up in Russian nerve agent attack

14 Oct 2024, 10:45 by Paul Godfrey · UPI

Oct. 14 (UPI) -- An independent public inquiry got underway in Salisbury, England, on Monday to try to get the bottom of the fatal Novichok poisoning of a British woman in 2018, four months after a failed assassination attempt on former Russian double agent Sergei Skripol in the same town.

The judge-led inquiry into the death of Dawn Sturgess, 44, will run Monday through Friday hearing from witnesses and focusing on the response of the police and emergency services and the investigation, with a further two weeks in London Nov. 4-15 looking at the post mortem and pathology reports and hearing from experts, according to a news release.