Detective Sergeant Nick Bailey was instrumental in helping to save thousands of lives from a devastating fate. But his family "lost everything" because of the horrific fallout from his brave actions.
After former Russian military intelligence officer Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were found semi-conscious on a park bench in Salisbury, the hero cop went to search their home to stop any casualties.
But he was completely unaware that the door handle had been sprayed with deadly nerve agent Novichok, which had already left two people seriously ill in hospital and would later claim the life of a third.
Hours later on that fateful day on 4 March 2018, DS Bailey began to feel unwell with his pupils "like pinpricks", but put it down to
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