Perfume bottle held enough Novichok to kill thousands, Dawn Sturgess death inquiry hears

Bottle of perfume held enough Novichok to kill thousands, Sturgess death inquiry hearsReuters

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00:00A particularly shocking feature of Dawn Sturges' death is that she unwittingly applied the

00:06poison to her own skin. She was entirely unaware of the mortal danger she faced because the

00:13highly toxic liquid had been concealed, carefully and deliberately concealed, inside a perfume

00:20bottle. Moreover, the evidence will suggest that this bottle, which we shall hear contained

00:26enough poison to kill thousands of people, must earlier have been left somewhere in a

00:32public place, creating the obvious risk that someone would find it and take it home.