Son of Novichok Poisoning Victim Pens Letter to Putin
DESPERATE PLEA
“I am appealing to you as a human being to allow our officers to question these men about my mother’s murder.”
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Ewan Hope, the 20-year-old son of a British woman who died last year after being exposed to a deadly nerve agent brought into the country by Russian intelligence officers, has reportedly penned a letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin. According to excerpts of the letter published by The Mirror on Sunday, Hope tells Putin he wants British authorities to be allowed to question the suspects in the killing of his mother, Dawn Sturgess. Sturgess and her boyfriend, Charlie Rowley, came into contact with Novichok last year after it was apparently left behind by the Russian intelligence officers who poisoned former spy Sergei Skripal, presumed to be Anatoly Chepiga and Aleksandr Mishkin. “British police believe at least two Russian citizens were responsible for her death but it appears they are being protected by your state,” Hope tells Putin in his letter. “I am appealing to you as a human being to allow our officers to question these men about my mother’s murder. The least she deserves is justice.”
