The Novichok perfume bottle that killed one contained “enough poison to kill thousands of people”, an inquiry into the incident.

The inquiry into how a British woman was fatally poisoned after being exposed to the Russian nerve agent is set to open today.

Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia narrowly survived the attack in 2018, during which members of a Russian military intelligence squad are believed to have smeared the nerve agent on a door handle

Sergei Skripal, who sold Russian secrets to Britain, believes Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered his and his daughter's Novichok poisoning.

Dawn Sturgess sprayed herself with deadly nerve agent Novichok, believing it to be perfume, in July 2018, months after the substance was used in the attempted assassination of Sergei Skripal.

Dawn Sturgess, a 44-year-old mother of three children, died in July 2018 after unwittingly spraying herself with a Soviet-era poison

A public inquiry reveals that Dawn Sturgess died after using a perfume bottle containing Novichok, inadvertently caught in a failed assassination attempt on Sergei Skripal. The UK blames Russian agents, while Russia denies involvement. Relations between London and Moscow remain strained.

Thousands of people could have been killed by the Salisbury poisonings, an inquiry heard.

Dawn Sturgess, 44, died after being exposed to the chemical weapon which was left in a discarded perfume bottle in Amesbury, Wiltshire, in July 2018.

The perfume bottle carrying the Russian nerve agent that fatally poisoned Dawn Sturgess contained “enough poison to kill thousands of people”, an inquiry into her death was told today

An inquiry into the Salisbury Novichok poisonings, which led to the death of mother-of-three Dawn Sturgess, 44, began at Salisbury Guildhall this morning.