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Police fear Wiltshire couple have been exposed to nerve agent
Dawn
Sturgess and Charlie Rowley in critical condition as Porton Down runs
tests
A
man and woman found unconscious in Wiltshire were poisoned by
Novichok - the same nerve agent that poisoned ex-Russian spy Sergei
Skripal, police say.
The
couple, believed to be Charlie Rowley and Dawn Sturgess, are in a
critical condition having been found unconscious at a house on
Saturday.
Police
say no one else has presented with the same symptoms.
There
was "nothing in their background" to suggest the pair were
targeted, the Met Police said.
The
pair, believed to be Dawn Sturgess, 44 and Charlie Rowley, 45, were
found unconscious on Saturday in Amesbury
Metropolitan
Police Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu said it could not be
confirmed whether the nerve agent came from the same batch that Mr
Skripal, and his daughter Yulia, were exposed to.
But
he said the possibility was "clearly a line of enquiry".
Mr
Basu said no contaminated items had yet been found, but officers were
putting together a "very detailed examination of [the couple's]
movements" in order to determine where they were poisoned.
He
added that members of the public should not pick anything up if they
don't know what it is.
"We
have no idea what may have contained the nerve agent at this time,"
he said.
The
Counter Terrorism Policing Network is now leading the investigation,
working with Wiltshire Police.
If there was “residue from the attack on the Skripals” a few minutes away from the infamous park bench in Salisbury, why were Prince Charles and Camilla permitted to cavort there a few weeks ago? Why was the PM allowed to fist-bump? #AliceinWonderland #FairyTale @RT_com #Russia
Here is Craig Murray on the subject - before the latest headlines.
4
July, 2018
Just
as the World Cup had forced the British media to grudgingly
acknowledge the obvious truth that Russia is an extremely interesting
country inhabited, like everywhere else, by mostly pleasant and
attractive people, we have a screaming reprise of the “Salisbury
incident” dominating the British media. Two people have been taken
ill in Amesbury from an unknown substance, which might yet be a
contaminated recreational drug, but could conceivably be from contact
with the substance allegedly used on the Skripals, presumably some of
which was somewhere indoors all this time as we were told it could be
washed away and neutralised by water.
Amesbury
is not Salisbury – it is 10 miles away. Interestingly enough Porton
Down is between Amesbury and Salisbury. Just three miles away from
Muggleton Road, Amesbury. The news reports are not mentioning that
much.
“I
am all out of ideas Inspector. What can possibly be the source of
these mysterious poisonings?”
Neither
Porton Down nor the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical
Weapons has any idea where the substance to which the Skripals were
allegedly exposed was made. Boris Johnson’s great “coup” of
obtaining a majority vote at the OPCW to expand its powers to place
blame for chemical attacks, has proven rather otiose as the OPCW has
no evidence on which to base any blame for Salisbury. In fact, four
months on, May and Johnson’s shrill blaming of Russia remains
entirely, 100% evidence free.
I
do however wish to congratulate the neo-con warmongers of the
Guardian newspaper for verbal dexterity. They have come up with a new
formulation to replace the
hackneyed “Of
a type developed by Russia”, to point the finger for a substance
that could have been made by dozens of state or non state parties.
The Guardian today came up with “Russian-created novichok”. This cleverly employs a word that can encompass “developed” while also appearing to say “made”. It also again makes out that novichok is a specific substance rather than a very broad class of substances. The Guardian’s Steven Morris, by this brilliant attempt deliberately to mislead his readers, runs away with this week’s award for lying neo-con media whore of the week. His achievement is particularly good as the rest of his report is largely a simple copy and paste from the Press Association.
The Guardian today came up with “Russian-created novichok”. This cleverly employs a word that can encompass “developed” while also appearing to say “made”. It also again makes out that novichok is a specific substance rather than a very broad class of substances. The Guardian’s Steven Morris, by this brilliant attempt deliberately to mislead his readers, runs away with this week’s award for lying neo-con media whore of the week. His achievement is particularly good as the rest of his report is largely a simple copy and paste from the Press Association.
I
most certainly hope that the couple in Salisbury hospital recover
from whatever is afflicting them. The media is, by making this the
lead story on all broadcast news after last night’s football,
inviting us to make the connection to the Skripals. In which case I
assume the couple were perfectly well for five hours after contact,
able to be very active and even to eat and drink heavily, before
being mysteriously instantly disabled at the same time despite
different ages, sexes, weights, and metabolisms and random
uncontrolled dosages.
Replicating
that would be quite a feat.
British Government Peddles Warmed Over Novichok Muck
4
July, 2018
Just as the World Cup had forced the British media to grudgingly acknowledge the obvious truth that Russia is an extremely interesting country inhabited, like everywhere else, by mostly pleasant and attractive people, we have a screaming reprise of the “Salisbury incident” dominating the British media.
All
British media outlets report of a middle-aged British couple, Dawn
Sturgess and Charlie Rowley, who fell seriously ill in Amesbury, a
town near Salisbury and near the British chemical weapon site Proton
Down. The couple were transported to the Salisbury hospital. They
were first suspected to have taken drugs but the police
now speaks (vid)
of a "potential exposure to an unknown substance" and that
they "remain in a critical condition".
The
parallels to the poisoning of the British-Russian spy Sergej Skripal
and his daughter four month ago are obvious. The government alleged
they were poisoned by a nerve agent of the Novichok series.
Like back in March the British government will soon name the evildoer
of this new drama.
The
most curious issue of the current case is that it happened Saturday
morning and that since a lot of local police action took place. But
news of the incident emerged only early today. None of the pieces I
read explains the four day long lack of reporting. The British
government obviously prohibited all news of the case until early
today and now prohibits to explain the censoring.
Why?
Sam Hobson, 29, a friend of the couple, said he believed they had been struck down by a nerve agent.
...
He described how on Saturday morning Sturgess fell ill and was taken to hospital and how later that morning Rowley also became sick. He said both were in hospital in isolation and he was receiving regular calls from the authorities to check he was well. “They thought it was drugs at first. They now think it’s a nerve agent,” he claimed.
Hobson, a mechanic, said he was in Salisbury with the couple on Friday evening in locations close to some of the places associated with the Skripal case.
...
Hobson visited Rowley’s home in Muggleston Road on Saturday morning. Sturgess, who lives in Salisbury, had spent the night there. “I saw lots of ambulances there and [Sturgess] got taken out on a stretcher. She needed to be helped with her breathing,” Hobson said. Rowley came out in tears. “They said she needed to have a brain scan.”
After she was taken to hospital Hobson and Rowley went to Boots in Amesbury. Later they went to a hog roast at the local baptist church.
...
Hobson said: “We went back to his place after the hog roast. We were going up to the hospital. Then he started sweating. His T-shirt was soaking wet. He got up and started rocking against the wall. His eyes were wide open and red, his pupils were like pinpricks. He began garbling incoherently and I could tell he was hallucinating. He was making weird noises and acting like a zombie. I phoned an ambulance. At first they thought it was drugs but … they know now it isn’t drugs.”
He said the couple had been together for a few months and neither worked. Hobson said they both also had one child by other partners.
Nearby resident Chloe Edwards described seeing police cars, fire engines and people in “green suits” on Saturday night.
"We were just eating our dinner and all these emergency vehicles turned up,” the 17-year-old student said.
"They were putting on these green suits and we thought it was the gas as our electricity was turned off as well."
Ms Edwards said the vehicles arrived at about 7pm and she and her family were told to stay inside their home until about 10pm.
How
come this did not emerge in the public?
A specialist "decontamination shower" was taken to the scene by Dorset and Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service on Saturday, but a crew from Swindon later tweeted that “thankfully the incident wasn't serious and our decontamination shower wasn't required”. The tweet has since been deleted.
It has emerged Ms Sturgess lives in a homeless shelter close to the Zizzi's restaurant in Salisbury where Russian spy Sergei Skirpal and his daughter Yulia were targeted four months ago.
...
Initially police believed the pair, understood to be recreational drug users, had come into contact with a contaminated batch of Class A drugs.
...
Sam Hobson, 29, said: 'Charlie was dribbling and was rocking backwards and forwards. He was in another world, he was hallucinating.
'He wasn't high or anything. He was stone cold sober. It was like nothing I'd ever seen. I called the ambulance and they took him away.'
The
police early on lied to the people living near the place where the
incidents happened. It first pretended the issue was a gas leak. Two
days ago it still told
local media that
this was a case of contaminated drugs. But its actions showed that
something else was going on.
LeeAnn Brady said: 'I was told on the Saturday around half 6 in the evening that there was a gas leak and to close my windows. Nothing else was ever mentioned to us after that.
'But I haven't seen any British Gas vans anywhere.'
...
Lewis Foote said: 'My wife's friend lives near them and I know there was a huge police presence the other day with firefighters. They were wearing hazardous chemical suits. A lot of people think it might be related to the spy poisoning again.'
Since
the Skripals mysteriously recovered from a "nerve agent ten
times stronger than VX" and the police released a
hostage video of Julia Skripal they
vanished from the scene. Likewise nothing was since heard of the
policeman who also fell ill at that time and recovered a few days
later.
No
explanations have been given for the myriad of misleading and
contradicting claims the British government made about the Skripal
case. Now we are getting a public rerun of the whole affair with a
case which seriousness was obvious early on but which was censored
for four days without giving any reason.
What
happened during these four days? Who (de-)briefed the notorious Sam
Hobson,
the "friend of the couple", who now speaks of a "nerve
agent"? Is he allowed to truthfully say what he saw and did or
does he have a different role in this story?
I
doubt that the currently presented version of Saturday's incident is
more valid than the fairytales we were told about the Skripal case.
But
what is it that really happened here?
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