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Vincent McAviney: UK/Europe Correspondent on the inquiry into the death of Dawn Sturgess · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Vincon Mecavini are UK europe correspondent with uscent this inquiry
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  Speaker 1: into the death of Dawn sturges. This is the Novachok
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  Speaker 1: incident in Salisbury. Will we hear a result?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right. You might remember back in twenty eighteen
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  Speaker 2: the Scripples a father and daughter. He was a Russian
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  Speaker 2: dissident living here in the UK. They were poisoned, but
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  Speaker 2: they survived. Then a few weeks later, Dawn Sturgis was
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  Speaker 2: the recipient of a perfume bottle and it was actually
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  Speaker 2: the Novechok spray used by the Russians. She used it
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  Speaker 2: on herself and tragically died from that chemical. Well, there
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  Speaker 2: has now been a lengthy investigation into exactly what happened,
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  Speaker 2: and the British now believe that Vladimir Putin himself was
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  Speaker 2: morally responsible for the death, that the order to kill
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  Speaker 2: the tritus killed the Scripples came from the very top
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  Speaker 2: of the Russian state, and that there was sadly nothing
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  Speaker 2: that could have been done given the high dosage that
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  Speaker 2: she took to survive what happened. So her family have
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  Speaker 2: long campaigned for full answers on this and this is
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  Speaker 2: a pretty detailed report very much pointing the finger at
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  Speaker 2: the highest levels of the Russian government for this death.
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  Speaker 1: Are they, because I knowe they say that he's potent
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  Speaker 1: as morally responsible. Are they saying that he gave the order?
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  Speaker 1: Is it go that far?
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  Speaker 2: Well, essentially he seems to have given the order to
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  Speaker 2: take out the scripples here in the UK. The scripples,
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  Speaker 2: of course survives. We know they're living somewhere quietly in
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  Speaker 2: under new identities now somewhere else in the world. But
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  Speaker 2: the knock on effect of that was that he allowed
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  Speaker 2: a chemical which his two agents, these two gru agents,
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  Speaker 2: simply disposed of in the city. They didn't get rid
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  Speaker 2: of it themselves, and it had enough of the poison
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  Speaker 2: inside it to kill as many as potentially a thousand people.
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  Speaker 2: And so it was their negligence whilst carrying out his
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  Speaker 2: orders that meant that Dawnstair just died. So that is
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  Speaker 2: why it's come in as being saying he is morally
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  Speaker 2: responsible for this.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for the uplate, Vincent appreciated. Vincent Mecavini are UK
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  Speaker 1: europe correspondent.
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