> Yet, with so many obvious giveaways, I find it hard to believe Russia ever wanted to get away with the Skripal poisoning.
Russian killings in the UK are nothing new, and there were plenty of evidences in many previous cases. What's new here, is that the UK decided to make this particular case public. Unlike, for instance, in 2012[1]:
> Perepilichnyy, who faced repeated threats after fleeing to Britain, was found dead outside his home in Surrey after returning from a mysterious trip to Paris in 2012. Despite an expert detecting signs of a fatal plant poison in his stomach, the British police have insisted there was no evidence of foul play, and Theresa May’s government has invoked national security powers to withhold evidence from the inquest into his cause of death – which is ongoing.
> The prime minister directed the government’s successful bid to withhold documents from Perepilichnyy’s inquest on national security grounds, and as home secretary her department oversaw the police force that concluded the whistleblower’s death was not suspicious.
Russian killings in the UK are nothing new, and there were plenty of evidences in many previous cases. What's new here, is that the UK decided to make this particular case public. Unlike, for instance, in 2012[1]:
> Perepilichnyy, who faced repeated threats after fleeing to Britain, was found dead outside his home in Surrey after returning from a mysterious trip to Paris in 2012. Despite an expert detecting signs of a fatal plant poison in his stomach, the British police have insisted there was no evidence of foul play, and Theresa May’s government has invoked national security powers to withhold evidence from the inquest into his cause of death – which is ongoing.
> The prime minister directed the government’s successful bid to withhold documents from Perepilichnyy’s inquest on national security grounds, and as home secretary her department oversaw the police force that concluded the whistleblower’s death was not suspicious.
[1] https://www.buzzfeed.com/heidiblake/poison-in-the-system