Do YOU think your Gummint could have done it...?
Posted on 07/08/2018 3:43:32 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
A woman who was exposed to a military-grade nerve agent in the United Kingdom last month has died, authorities said Sunday.
London's Metropolitan Police Department identified the woman as 44-year-old Dawn Sturgess of Durrington. Authorities have launched a murder inquiry into her death, police said.
A 45-year-old man who was also exposed to the nerve agent Novichok remains hospitalized in critical condition, police said.
"This terrible news has only served to strengthen our resolve to identify and bring to justice the person or persons responsible for what I can only describe as an outrageous, reckless and barbaric act," Neil Basu, the head of U.K. counterterrorism policing, said in a statement.
Basu said that Sturgess leaves behind three children, and offered thoughts and prayers for the woman's family.
"Detectives will continue with their painstaking and meticulous work to gather all the available evidence so that we can understand how two citizens came to be exposed with such a deadly substance that tragically cost Dawn her life," he said.
Sturgess was found by emergency medical workers after she collapsed at a residence in Amesbury and was subsequently taken to the hospital. Hours later, emergency workers responded to the same address after the 45-year-old man had fallen ill, police said.
Both were determined to have been exposed to the nerve agent after touching a contaminated item with their hands, police said.
Authorities later determined that both people had been exposed to Novichok, a military-grade nerve agent produced by the Soviet Union decades ago.
The poisonings came months after a former Russian double agent, Sergei Skripal, and his daughter Yulia, were found on a park bench after being exposed to the nerve agent. Both survived the exposure and have since been discharged from the hospital.
U.K. and other Western officials have blamed Russia for carrying out the attack on the Skripals – a charge that Moscow has denied. A number of Western countries expelled dozens of Russian diplomats in response to the poisonings.
There is no evidence that Sturgess and the other victim visited any of the sites that had been decontaminated after the Skripals' poisoning, police said, adding that they could not say whether the nerve agent came from the same batch as the one the Skripals came in contact with.
Detectives are still working to determine the source of the contamination.
Oh, that’s terribly sad. I hope the local authorities can figure out how these people were poisoned before there are more cases.
Sad to say I now regard Britain as LESS trustworthy than Russia.
Never thought it would be this way....
Do YOU think your Gummint could have done it...?
“Authorities later determined that both people had been exposed to Novichok, a military-grade nerve agent produced by the Soviet Union decades ago.”
Actually the labs were never able to tie the agent to Russia. It is the UK government that is putting forth the lie that they did. It could have been Russia, but it could have been someone else. If you repeat a lie often enough then people just believe it.
Islamic prayers?
Sorry to hear this. Clearly there is a lot we have no idea about.
I still don’t think it is the Russians and sooner believe that the British are doing it.
When guns are banned, then people will find other ways to kill other people.
I’d consider that along the same lines as acid attacks and consider THAT community first, before the Russians.
I’d think that is the Russians were going to off someone, they would not do it in such a way as to be so obvious that it was them.
It's likely this is related, possibly accidental, unless there's more to the deceased lady and her husband than is being said.
The point man for the UK government in the case is Home Secretary Sajid Javid who said earlier today no new sanctions were envisioned on Russia over this matter.
I hope it stays that way because I hope the ruling elites have gotten over their rage against Russia.
But will they tell us the truth about this whole thing?
Someone has died.
These folks completely not associated with Russia, much less a target of Russia.
Additionally, they were not in any known place of the previous exposures.
How the hell did they come into contact with this agent in Britain? And, will British authorities ever tell anyone what they discover?
I like her hat, but even with the hat on, it’s obvious that she has a bad haircut. Or a good haircut far too long ago.
Hmm, maybe the investigation should start there.
Considering the proximity of the pair’s exposure to the British chemical weapons facility at Porton Down, how exactly do they judge the nerve agent to be “Soviet” / Russian and rule out the possibility of it being their own? Seems like somebody is pushing hard for a new cold, or even hot, war.
“I like her hat, but even with the hat on, it’s obvious that she has a bad haircut. Or a good haircut far too long ago.”
She needs a Comanche haircut.
Comanche men made statements with their hair. Women’s was usually short and practical.
I know. I was being a decent person.
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