Irish musician drank from the same cup as Alexander Litvinenko

An Irish musician who drank from the same cup as poisoned ex-Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko has said he fells lucky to be alive.

Derek Conlon, originally from Glasnevin in Dublin, performed in the bar area of the Millennium Hotel in Mayfair, London, just an hour after it was the scene of the poisoning of Litvinenko, a pronounced critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, on November 1, 2006.

Litvinenko died 21 days later after it emerged he had been poisoned with Polonium-210, a rare and highly radioactive element.