Builder Charlie, 44, fell critically ill and his partner Dawn Sturgess died after exposure to the deadly nerve agent Novichok at his home in Amesbury, Wiltshire.
In March 2018, three months earlier, ex-Soviet spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia had been found unconscious on a Salisbury park bench, seven miles away… "I didn’t mean to, but I killed my girlfriend.
How do you ever get over that? I can’t. But that is the surreal heartbreak that happened when my partner Dawn and I became unwittingly dragged into the news story that rocked the world.
Salisbury is idyllic, the most unlikely place you’d imagine a Russian spy to be poisoned by a military-grade nerve agent. People were scared, but we were told repeatedly that the nerve agent areas had been identified and made safe.
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