Salisbury novichok inquiry: container hunt like looking for ‘needle in haystack’
Counter-terrorism police chief tells of difficulty of search for vessel with poison after attack on Sergei Skripal
Hunting for the container of nerve agent used in the attack on the former Russian spy Sergei Skripal was like “searching for a needle in a haystack”, a counter-terrorism forensics chief has said.
Keith Asman, the head of forensics and digital investigations for the police’s south-east region counter-terrorism unit, told the inquiry into the Wiltshire poisonings that officers combed the area around Skripal’s house for a small container of novichok and for discarded protective clothing the attackers may have used.
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