fatally poisoned

The mother-of-three was fatally poisoned after spraying herself with the contents of a perfume bottle which contained a "significant amount" of the nerve agent.

John McCullough, a retired business studies lecturer, had been fatally poisoned and the 70-year-old's body was hidden in a crudely-built tomb made out of breeze blocks and blankets.

In June 2018, Ms Sturgess was fatally poisoned after accidentally spraying herself with a substance she believed to be perfume, but which turned out to be Novichok.

An IT worker who fatally poisoned a couple with the opioid painkiller fentanyl and rewrote their will has been jailed for a minimum of 37 years.

Alexander V. Litvinenko, a former F.S.B. agent living in London who was openly critical of Mr. Putin’s government, was fatally poisoned in 2006, and there were failed attempts to use a nerve agent to kill a turncoat former Russian spy, Sergei Skripal, in Britain in 2018, and the opposition leader Aleksei A. Navalny in 2020.