Would you buy novichok spy Sergei Skripal’s house? Council buy poisoned Russian agent’s decontaminated home after 13,000 hours of cleaning and plan to sell it as residential property Sergei Skripal’s four-bedroom detached house has been bought by Wiltshire Council It has been lying empty since the assassination attempt with Novichok on Mr Skripal, 69, and … Read more
The burgers were sizzling, and drinks and conversation flowing freely, at Ross and Mo Cassidy’s summer barbecue in the garden of their redbrick semi in Salisbury. Then, in a baritone Russian accent, their next-door neighbour made a pronouncement that sliced through the frivolity like a Cossack sabre. ‘You know, one day Putin is going to … Read more
Double agent Sergei Skripal’s family in Russia today wished him and daughter Yulia well amid claims they have started a new life in New Zealand. Cousin Natalya Pestsova and niece Elena said they hope the former GRU spy was doing well wherever he was living. It comes after a senior government source in London reportedly said the pair … Read more