Russian agents spied on Sergei and Yulia Skripal FIVE YEARS before Salisbury attack, coroner is told

Russian agents spied on Sergei and Yulia Skripal five years before the Salisbury Novichok poisoning, a pre-inquest review has heard. The movements of two intelligence officers - who used the aliases Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov - will be investigated during the probe into the death of Dawn Sturgess, Coroner Baroness Hallett said. The 2013 movements of two intelligence officers - who used the aliases Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov - will be investigated during the probe into the death of Dawn Sturgess, Coroner Baroness Hallett said Russian agents spied on Sergei and Yulia Skripal five years before the Salisbury novichok poisoning, a pre-inquest review has heard Dawn Sturgess died after coming into contact with a perfume bottle containing Novichok Baroness Hallett said the inquest into Ms Sturgess's death will examine whether the Kremlin was responsible for the chemical attack and where the substance used to poison her came from. Outlining the provisional scope of the inquest, Baroness Hallett said: 'To my mind, there is very considerable force in submissions made by Mr O'Connor that to conduct an investigation into the death of Dawn Sturgess without investigating how Novichok got to be in Salisbury, and then in Amesbury, how or why it was brought to this country, who brought it and who directed them - this would be an incomplete and potentially misleading investigation.'