9th July, 2018.
Yep: it’s Monday, it’s a Monday morning …
And the quiet patch that was the slow news weekend?
Has been broken.
Yep: we’ve got Thai junior football teams getting dug out of holes, we’ve got at least one pro-Brexit government minister handing in his resignation* …
And a death in Amesbury.
You possibly remember that Sergei Skripal, and his daughter Yulia, were poisoned, in March: with a nerve agent called Novichok.
A poison that’s usually only made by government labs: and one apparently only made in Russia.
An English couple — Dawn Sturgess, and Charlie Rowley — were poisoned by the same nerve agent, at the end of June.
Apparently? After picking up something that contained it.
Current thinking?
- Is, apparently, that the Skripals were poisoned with it.
- That the nerve agent was disguised in an innocent looking container.
- That the container was left somewhere where someone could find it.
- It got found by Sturgess and Rowley: who believed it was an interesting looking, but innocent, container.
Now …
Outside of any Health and Safety implications† — which seems a pretty pointless argument, when you’re talking about chemical weapons! — I’m assuming the Russian who did this was more worried about getting out of the UK, or being caught, than anything else.
At any rate?
Someone who wasn’t involved with spying on Russia, who didn’t work for the KGB, or MI6, or any other intelligence agency, got killed.
Because someone wanted a Russian double agent dead.
Even if we call Dawn Sturgess’s death ‘collateral damage’?
There’s possibly a good argument for calling it murder.
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