Dawn's parents, in an interview with The Guardian newspaper released last week, expressed doubt that the UK authorities "have given us all the facts" and blamed them for "putting Skripal in Salisbury," which is located close to Amesbury. According to them, Skripal, who used to be a double agent, "must have known there was a chance people were still after him."
"On February 18, the embassy sent a regular note to the British Foreign Office regarding the incidents in Salisbury and Amesbury. The British side’s attention was drawn to an interview with the parents of British citizen Sturgess, who died in July last year… published on February 16 in The Guardian newspaper, in which they accuse the country's current government of conducting a non-transparent investigation of the incident," the embassy told Sputnik.
Previously, commenting on the interview, the Russian Embassy's stressed that that Dawn's cremation rules out the possibility of further investigation or the reverification of the reasons behind her death. As the spokesperson noted, a similar situation happened with the Skripal case.
Sturgess and her boyfriend, Charlie Rowley, as UK police claims, were exposed to a nerve agent, the same that was ostensibly used against Skripal and his daughter. While the Skripals and Rowley survived, Sturgess died on 8 July.
Skripal, a former Russian intelligence officer, was convicted in Russia in 2006 for passing sensitive information to the UK’s MI6. In 2010, he was allowed to move to the United Kingdom as part of a spy swap and has lived there for eight years. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has told Sputnik that Moscow would have not swapped Skripal if the Russian authorities really wanted to get an act of revenge on him for his misdeeds.
London accused Moscow of orchestrating the purported attack on him, while failing to present any proof. Moscow, in turn, has consistently denied the allegations, offering assistance in the investigation of the case — something which the UK refused to accept.
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