{"id":611646,"date":"2025-12-04T12:39:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T12:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/611646\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T12:39:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T12:39:13","slug":"putin-morally-responsible-for-unsurvivable-novichok-poisoning-of-dawn-sturgess-inquiry-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/611646\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin &#8216;morally responsible&#8217; for &#8216;unsurvivable&#8217; Novichok poisoning of Dawn Sturgess, inquiry finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Circumstances of death &#8216;clear but quite extraordinary&#8217;published at 12:36 GMT<\/p>\n<p>12:36 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-8kvzjk-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/c1b3e90a-9cb0-4e58-b2c2-a6aba6947e8b.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/><strong>Harriet Robinson<\/strong><br \/>Live Page Reporter<\/p>\n<p>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Black and white image of Dawn Sturgess smiling with her hair tied back and a loose cardigan over a T-shirt.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/d7fef463-c005-4d6c-be4e-040929261b16.png.webp.webp\"  width=\"976\" height=\"549\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Handout<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dawn Sturgess fell ill on 30 June 2018, Lord Hughes says in his statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Earlier in the day her partner, Charlie Rowley, had given her a small bottle of what he thought was Nina Ricci perfume, but it contained Novichok.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Dawn became seriously ill very quickly,&#8221; he says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Rowley called an ambulance but by the time paramedics arrived Ms Sturgess&#8217; heart had stopped beating &#8220;for some time&#8221;, Lord Hughes continues. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She had sustained an &#8220;unsurvivable brain injury&#8221; and never regained consciousness, he says. Ms Sturgess died on 8 July in Salisbury District Hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The medical cause of her death was hypoxic ischaemic brain injury and intracranial brain haemorrhage, attributable to Novichok poisoning. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lord Hughes adds: &#8220;The immediate circumstances of her death are clear but also quite extraordinary.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Circumstances of death &#8216;clear but quite extraordinary&#8217;published at 12:36 GMT 12:36 GMT Harriet RobinsonLive Page Reporter Image source,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":611647,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-611646","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115661345774941810","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=611646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/611647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}