Ex-spy Sergei Skripal believes Putin responsible for poisoning him – inquiry

They were poisoned when members of a Russian military intelligence squad are believed to have smeared the nerve agent on Mr Skripal’s door handle

Former spy Sergei Skripal believes Russian President Vladimir Putin was responsible for poisoning him with Novichok, the Dawn Sturgess Inquiry has heard. Picture: Jonathan Brady/PA

Former spy Sergei Skripal believes Russian President Vladimir Putin was responsible for poisoning him with Novichok, the Dawn Sturgess Inquiry has heard.

In an interview in May 2018, two months after he, his daughter Yulia and then-police officer Nick Bailey, were poisoned in Salisbury, Wiltshire, in March that year, a police officer put it to him that he believed President Putin was responsible, to which he replied “It’s my private opinion”, said Andrew O’Connor KC, counsel to the inquiry.