Salisbury poisonings could be an ‘act of war’ thought former counter terrorism chief

Neil Basu, former head of UK counter-terrorism policing, questioned if the Salisbury poisoning of Sergei Skripal and his daughter was an “act of war” due to the use of the Russian-made nerve agent Novichok, which he described as “colourless and odourless”. The Novichok nerve agent was found in a perfume bottle in Amesbury, leading to the death of Dawn Sturgess, while Skripals, police officer Nick Bailey, and Charlie Rowley survived exposure to the deadly substance. Basu blamed the Kremlin for Sturgess’s death, calling the reckless act a blatant disregard for human life on foreign soil.

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