Well it seems the drama isn't quite over, after all... and it isn't a third suspect. It's a fourth.
Quote:Salisbury poisonings: Third man faces charges for Novichok attackArchived BBC Article:
'Police say they have identified another suspect in the Salisbury Novichok attacks, which left three people
critically ill and one dead.
The one they didn't have an image of at Heathrow.
Former Russian agent Sergei Skripal, his daughter Yulia and a police officer, Nick Bailey, were exposed to
the substance in 2018. Dawn Sturgess died after finding a perfume bottle with it in months later.
Security sources now believe a senior Russian agent, Denis Sergeev, was the on-the-ground commander.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that all three suspects "should be handed over for justice".
Detectives had previously named two Russian intelligence officers as suspects.
Anatoliy Chepiga and Alexander Mishkin, have long been alleged to have smeared the military-grade nerve agent
Novichok on the handle of former GRU officer Sergei Skripal's front door. They believe the group belonged to a
team from the GRU, Russia's military intelligence service. Sergeev has also been linked to other covert activity
across Europe.
But Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said the UK was using the case as "a tool to put
pressure on our country", adding: "We decisively reject all of London's attempt to blame Moscow for what happened
in Salisbury."
The Crown Prosecution Service has now authorised charges, but the suspects cannot be formally charged unless
they are arrested. All three are thought to be in Russia.
Nick Price, head of the special crime and counter terrorism division at the CPS, said there was "sufficient evidence
to provide a realistic prospect of conviction" and that it was in the public interest to charge Sergeev.
Prosecutors were working with police to bring the attackers to justice "where possible" but Russia has made clear it
does not extradite its citizens, he said. Home Secretary Priti Patel told the House of Commons that if any of the suspects
travelled outside Russia, the UK would "take every possible step to detain and extradite them" and would be "relentless
in the pursuit of justice".
She said the poisoning was "an appalling event that shook the entire country and united our allies in condemnation",
but said it was not the first time Russia had committed "a brazen attack in the UK" - referring to the European Court
of Human Rights' judgement on the killing of Alexander Litvinenko...'
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