Inquiry into novichok death of Dawn Sturgess to begin in autumn 2024

Exclusive: date set for start of long-awaited hearing into Wiltshire woman’s 2018 poisoning

The long-awaited independent inquiry into the death of Dawn Sturgess in the Wiltshire novichok poisonings will begin in autumn 2024, the Guardian can reveal.

Sturgess’s father, Stan Sturgess, expressed relief that a date had been set and said he hoped it would mean that those responsible for the attack would be held to account.