Check out the link I posted in post#10. Skripal was a Russian spy in the late 90s and early 2000s. He was turned by the Brits (by a Steele friend and during the era Steele was in Brit intel)
The Ruskis found out he was a double agent and arrested him when he was in Russia.
He was tried, convicted and went to prison. He served several years and was released in some sort of spy swap.
He moved to the Uk where he lived openly under his own name for 8 years.
So my point, if the Russians wanted him dead, they had in in prison as a turncoat for years. He could have vanished.
To me that goes against the Teresa May narrative that
the Russians got him for being a turncoat. I think it’s way more likely that Hillary and her loyalists in US/Brit intel agencies did it.
As it stands now, the Brits can say they just cooperated with the proper authorities in the US. If a few of the wrong people sing it could come out that they did the grunt work on their own for their own reasons then used Steele to channel things to people they knew would be more than happy to get it.
Whatever the case, the victim was absolutely someone who could pass along information about British sources and methods which, IMHo, makes him more of a target for the US, British, or Ukrainians, depending on who he worked with alongside Steele way more than for the Russians.