Ex-Russian spy Sergei Skripal who was poisoned by nerve agent Novichok has a live-in nurse as he continues his recovery nearly three years after Salisbury attack, daughter reveals
- Sergei Skripal, 69, and daughter Yulia were poisoned in Salisbury in March 2018
- Both survived, but Mr Skripal had to have a tracheotomy and breathes via a tube
- Two years on, the former Russian spy is said to be ‘in a tight spot’ in his recovery
- Mother-of-three Dawn Sturgess, 44, later died as a result of the Novichok attack
A former Russian spy who was poisoned by the nerve agent Novichok has a live-in nurse as he continues to recover nearly three years after the Salisbury attack, his daugher has revealed.
Sergei Skripal, 69, and his daughter Yulia were poisoned with the Russian nerve agent in Salisbury in March 2018.
Both survived, though Mr Skripal, who was jailed in Russia in 2006 for selling secrets to MI6, required a tracheotomy and now breathes through a tube.
The attack later claimed the life of mother-of-three Dawn Sturgess, who is thought to have come into contact with the nerve agent after picking up a perfume bottle in a public park.
Sergei Skripal requires care from a live-in nurse nearly three years on from the Salisbury Novichok attack on him and his daughter, Yulia (pictured together)
His daughter Yulia, who is in her 30s, recently told her cousin she had fully recovered from the attack but her father was ‘in a tight spot,’ according to Russian newspaper Moskovsky Komsomolets.
Her cousin, Viktoria Skripal, has confirmed the report to The Daily Telegraph.
The father and daughter are living in separate flats due to the Covid-19 pandemic, with Ms Skripal saying of her father: ‘He feels fine but I don’t see him because of the lockdown.’
Mr Skripal had a tracheotomy following the attack and now uses a tracheal tube to breathe, she added.
Mother-of-three Dawn Sturgess died after coming into contact with a perfume bottle believed to have been used in the attack before being discarded
Mother-of-three Dawn Sturgess (left) and her partner Charlie Rowley (right) fell ill at the flat after she handled a perfume bottle containing the poison. She died in hospital in Salisbury, Wiltshire, on July 8 that year. Mr Rowley was left seriously ill but recovered
The Skripals survived the attack but the incident later claimed the life of Dawn Sturgess after she came into contact with a perfume bottle believed to have been used in the attack before being discarded.
Her partner, Charlie Rowley, was left seriously ill but recovered.
The flat where Ms Sturgess was fatally poisoned was demolished in late October.
Sergei Skripal’s home was ‘dismantled,’ in January 2019, according to The Guardian.
DS Nick Bailey, one of the first officers called to the attack in March 2018, quit the force in October this year and has previously spoken of the difficulty his family his went through as a result of the attack – which also cost him his family home.
He told BBC’s Panorama: ‘Not only did we lose the house, we lost all of our possessions, including everything the kids owned.
‘We lost everything. And yeah, it’s been very difficult to kind of come to terms with that.’
Moscow has repeatedly denied any involvement, with President Vladimir Putin claiming the two suspects, known by aliases Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov, were civilians
Two Russian nationals have been accused of travelling to the UK to try to murder Mr Skripal with Novichok.
The suspects – known by aliases Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov – were seen on CCTV footage in Salisbury the day before the attack.
Moscow has repeatedly denied any involvement, with President Vladimir Putin claiming the two suspects were civilians.