Alexander Litvinenko ‘responsible for own death’

One of the men accused of murdering poisoned Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko has said he believes the former KGB officer might have killed himself accidentally after handling radioactive material.

Dimitri Kovtun and Andrei Lugovoi are suspected of murdering the 43-year-old former spy, who died nearly three weeks after consuming tea laced with polonium-210 in London in November 2006.

According to Interfax, which hosted the press conference in Moscow, Kovtun said: “I am more than sure that he dealt with polonium, without knowing it.