Top civil servant branded novichok victim 'just a drug addict' after her death in 'disgraceful' revelation

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The former head of UK counterterrorism policing has revealed a high-ranking civil servant dismissed the victim of novichok poisoning as a "drug addict".Dawn Sturgess, a 44-year-old mother of three from Salisbury, died in 2018 after spraying herself with what she believed was perfume, but was in fact the deadly nerve agent.Former counterterrorism chief Neil Basu describes the remark, made during a meeting attended by then-Home Secretary Sajid Javid and MI5 Director-General Andrew Parker, as "disgraceful" and "appalling".The characterisation was entirely false, based on erroneous intelligence supplied by Wiltshire police, and is documented in Channel 4's three-part documentary series The Salisbury Poisonings, set to air from April 29.

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TRENDING Stories Videos Your Say In the documentary, Mr Basu states: "After Dawn died, a very senior member of government said what I still think to this day is one of the most appalling things I've ever heard: 'Well thank God it's a drug addict'".Ms...

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