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Gavin Grey: UK Correspondent on the teenage killer at the Taylor Swift dance event now facing a terrorism charge · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Devin Gray is with us this morning. Devin, an update
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  Speaker 1: on the teenager accused of murdering three young girls in Southport.
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  Speaker 1: What have you learned?
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  Speaker 2: Well, we now know that the detectives who are investigating
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  Speaker 2: those stabbings on the twenty ninth of July in Northwest
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  Speaker 2: England also searched his property and there they are reporting
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  Speaker 2: that they discovered ricin, which is a type of chemical weapon,
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  Speaker 2: but also basically evidence documents that the person they're saying
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  Speaker 2: was committing to or preparing an act of terrorism. It
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  Speaker 2: was said that he had a military study of an
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  Speaker 2: Al Qaeda training manual and was in possession of that.
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  Speaker 2: So the eighteen year old has now likely to appear
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  Speaker 2: in court tomorrow. This news is coming in that'll be
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  Speaker 2: in a London court. Canter Terrorism police have not declared
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  Speaker 2: the matter a terrorist incident. That's more a technicality than
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  Speaker 2: anything else. This discovery though quite a shock. You'll remember
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  Speaker 2: that Acts Rudop Bakana were scheduled to appear in court
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  Speaker 2: over the stabbings of the three young girls aged six,
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  Speaker 2: seven and nine who were at to Taylor Swift the
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  Speaker 2: dance class.
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  Speaker 1: It was a very very sad story. Indeed, this story
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  Speaker 1: is a quite incredible We know about the Russian spy
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  Speaker 1: Sergo Scripple and his daughter Julia, who are poisoned with
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  Speaker 1: Navachok in the UK, but we've just learned through an
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  Speaker 1: inquiry about another victim.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, now we do know somebody died of this having
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  Speaker 2: been exposed to Novichok because it was stored in a
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  Speaker 2: perfume bottle and they picked up the perfume bottle thought
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  Speaker 2: it was an expensive gift and sadly they died. And
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  Speaker 2: we also know from earlier evidence in the inquiry ran
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  Speaker 2: that there was enough Navichok in that bottle to kill
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  Speaker 2: thousands of people. Were no our materializes that a boy
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  Speaker 2: came into contact with Sergei Skrippel, the form of Russian
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  Speaker 2: spy the target of the Novi Chok attack on the
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  Speaker 2: day he and his daughter were poisoned, and believed or not,
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  Speaker 2: the boil on with two others were basically by the
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  Speaker 2: river in Salisbury by a pond and were helping serge
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  Speaker 2: Scripbell feed the ducks. And they did exchange a bit
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  Speaker 2: of bread, build a look of CCTV to feed the ducks.
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  Speaker 2: Now you might think what big deal, but of course
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  Speaker 2: Novichuk is highly boisonous. And this idea that you know,
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  Speaker 2: this boy was in contact with Sergei Scripbell. The police
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  Speaker 2: did trace him as part of the investigation, and all
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  Speaker 2: the boy had he was just he was mildly ill
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  Speaker 2: for a day or two after the encounter, I mean
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  Speaker 2: extraordinarily lucky, bearing in mind the effect that Novichok had
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  Speaker 2: on the others, and I'm afraid really does feed into
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  Speaker 2: what the Britons are saying here, which Russia is denying,
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  Speaker 2: which is effectively Russia callously tried to carry out the
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  Speaker 2: killing a one person butt at risk many, many thousands
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  Speaker 2: of others.
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  Speaker 1: Devin, thank you for those updates this morning, Devin Gray.
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  Speaker 1: You can your correspondent for more from Early Edition with
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  Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge. Listen live to News Talks it Be from
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