The British Government is preparing to halt the coroner's court inquest into allegations that Novichok caused the death of Dawn Sturgess in Salisbury on July 8, 2018. After replacing the Salisbury coroner in January of this year, and after a.
Tue, 25 May 2021 18:47 UTC New evidence has surfaced from interviews with sources at the Salisbury undertaker and crematorium in charge of the obsequies for Dawn Sturgess, whose death at Salisbury District Hospital on July 8, 2018, is the only death officially recorded from the Novichok nerve agent. Their testimony raises fresh doubts that Novichok was the cause of her death, and suspicion that the
two state coroners and two state pathologists responsible for the investigation have been concealing material evidence of timing and records in the case.
A report published last week exposed the refusal of the two pathologists, Philip Lumb and Guy Rutty, to discuss the two autopsies they conducted to determine the cause of Sturgess s death. This was despite the public disclosure on March 30, during a hearing of the coroner s inquest directed by secret service advisor, Baroness Heather Hallett. Lumb s identity was revealed for the first time, along with indications that at a first auto
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Scores of people who could be key witnesses to deaths in detention may have been âdeliberatelyâ deported before they could give evidence, it has been claimed. And it has also emerged that the home secretary, Priti Patel, failed to address concerns from a coroner last year that the actions of her department could have undermined police investigations.
Patel was informed last August of concerns from a coroner that Home Office officials possibly âchose to ignore the factâ that witnesses to the contentious death of a black detainee were due to give evidence before attempting to remove them from the UK.