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On 30 June 2018, in Amesbury, two British nationals, Charlie Rowley and Dawn Sturgess, were admitted to Salisbury District Hospital in Wiltshire, England.Police determined that they were poisoned by a Novichok nerve agent of the same kind used in the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal in Salisbury, 8 miles (13 km) away, almost four months prior.
On 30 June 2018, a similar poisoning of two British nationals in Amesbury, seven miles (11 km) north of Salisbury, involved the same nerve agent. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] Charlie Rowley found a perfume bottle, later discovered to contain the agent, in a litter bin somewhere in Salisbury and gave it to Dawn Sturgess who sprayed it on her wrist.
Former head of UK counter-terrorism policing, Neil Basu, was speaking as an inquiry into how Dawn Sturgess was fatally poisoned six years ago continues
A spray bottle depicting a green skull and crossbones is depicted on the bottom left of the board, which The Guardian and Euronews stated was a reference to the perfume bottle containing the similar Novichok nerve agent which killed Dawn Sturgess in the Amesbury poisonings months after the Salisbury incident.
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In the twenty-first century, Novichok agents came to public attention after they were used to poison opponents of the Russian government, including the Skripals and two others in Amesbury, UK (2018), as well as Alexei Navalny (2020), but Russian civil poisonings with this substance have been known since at least 1995.