Russian Spies Used Fake Perfume Bottle to Poison British Town

Added: 2026-06-01

[00:00:00]They disguised it as perfume, a small bottle of Nina Ricci, but inside was Novichok, [music] one of the most lethal poisons ever created. The target was Sergei Skripal, a former Russian spy living quietly in Salisbury. Two men smeared [music] it on his door handle. Within hours, Skripal and his daughter collapsed on a park bench, foaming at the mouth, but [music] the killers made a mistake. They threw the bottle away. Four months later, Dawn Sturgess found it. She thought it was expensive [music] perfume. She sprayed it on her wrist. 15 minutes later, she was dead. [music] The poison had contaminated an entire English town.