The Skripal Incident.

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It seems that the idea of migrating to New Zealand with new identities will stop Putin's gang from another botched attempt
to poison them with an instantaneous nerve-agent that takes hours to react. My wonder is if the news-outlet publishing this
article realised the problematic nature of adding a photograph?!



God bless the Commonwealth.

Poisoned Skripals move to New Zealand with new identities.

'The former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia have begun a new life in New Zealand, according to senior
UK government sources.


Cheers... you're out.

A week before the broadcast of a BBC drama telling the story of those caught up in the novichok nerve agent attack in the
English cathedral city of Salisbury in 2018, it has emerged that the pair have moved overseas after living for more than a
year in an MI6 safe house...'

The real reason this story has re-emerged, a BBC drama that will assist in altering history and the facts. A year in a safe-house
and now they're moving...? Wouldn't it have been more prudent to keep their whereabouts more secret or is the advertising of
a publicly-funded television programme more important?
Or it all just a ruse?!

'A senior government source with knowledge of the risk assessment carried out on the couple at the time of the move said the
Skripals had been given new identities and support to start a new life. The pair were found unconscious on a park bench in
Salisbury, Wiltshire, on March 4, 2018, after Russian agents smeared the deadly chemical on the door handle of the former
spy’s home.

The bench has since been sent to Quantico, in Virginia, home of the FBI’s training and research centre, according to a member
of the local emergency response team...'

Who just happened to be available for the newspaper interview and the Sailsbury location.

'Dawn Sturgess, 44, died in July 2018 after handling a perfume bottle containing the poison.

Yulia left hospital a month after the attack and was taken by the security services to a secret location. She was joined a month later
by her father, a former double agent who had arrived in the UK as part of a spy swap in 2010.The pair are unlikely to surface publicly
again.

However, Mr Skripal remains in touch with his old neighbours Ross Cassidy and his wife Mo. In December, the couple opened a
Christmas card and were astonished to see it was from the Skripals. There was no return address.
“It’s nice to know they are thinking of us,” Mr Cassidy told The Sunday Times. “But I don’t expect we’ll ever see them again.”

The Skripals were targeted by Anatoly Chepiga and Alexander Mishkin, who travelled to the UK under false names. Chepiga was
a decorated colonel with the GRU, the Russian military intelligence service for which Mr Skripal had been working when he was
recruited by MI6 in the mid-1990s.
Usually those involved in spy swaps are not targeted, so long as they fade into obscurity.

The Cassidys were astonished that the former double agent had not been given deeper cover after the poisoning with polonium
of the Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko in London in 2006. Mr Skripal lived openly under his own name. “I’ll never for the life
of me understand why they didn’t give him a pseudonym,” Mr Cassidy said.

Mr Skripal never fully relaxed into his life in Britain, according to Mr Cassidy, who described him as gregarious but also watchful and
suspicious. He added that his neighbour often sat in an armchair with a clear view of the street. “Sergei saw you coming before you
ever saw him,” he said.
A Home Office source said: “We do not comment on intelligence matters.”...'

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It's over, ladies and gentlemen. The case of the Russian lethal nerve-agent that only works sometimes and on certain people, has finally
been put to rest. As Great Britain leaves the European Union, another story of mystery and intrigue falls away in the mists of burnt-out
sensationalism. Maybe the Madeleine MccCann situation is next.


For those left behind like Charlie Rowley and the indestructible Sam Hobson, those days of dumpster-diving and regular inebriation
can resume with the knowledge that the Russians and their perfume bottles of Novichok will not pass that way again.

We can also leave this baffling case now, it's not like there's any more information of where the Skripals have gone or an image to identify
them by and after all, New Zealand is a massive country.