The head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Britain Vet Patel approved the beginning of a public investigation into the death case of Don Sturges, who died in Amesbury in 2018 as a result of poisoning with a neuro-paralytic substance “Novice”. This is reported by TASS with reference to the statement.
“We will investigate to provide an opportunity to study all the evidence dealing with the case, hoping that the Don Strocess family will receive answers to their questions, as it deserves,” said Patel. It is noted that the investigation will lead the Baroness Heger Hellett, which was investigating the circumstances of the death of people during terrorist attacks in London in 2005.
Don Sterges and Charlie Rowley in June 2018 received poisoning in Amesbury by the neuro-paralytic substance “Novice”, in March, in the neighboring town of Salisbury, a former employee Gro Sergey Skripal and his daughter Julia were poisoned. The couple was placed in the same hospital, where the treatment was tested, but Briton died. Rowley came to himself. The man told that he found a bottle with an alleged poison in the park and presented the dead.
Subsequently, the Sturges family filed a lawsuit against London’s High Court of Violation of Human Rights. Family lawyers began the proceedings in court in accordance with the European Convention on Human Rights. The defendants in the case of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Defense of Russia and the General Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia (GRU). The Russian side rejected accusations of involvement in the death of the British.