Salisbury novichok poisoning inquiry hears how Dawn Sturgess fell ill

Woman who died after unwittingly spraying her wrists with nerve agent was ‘convulsing and foaming at the mouth’

A woman killed in the Salisbury novichok poisonings began foaming at the mouth and convulsing 10 or 15 minutes after unwittingly spraying the nerve agent on her wrists, an inquiry has heard.

Dawn Sturgess, 44, got into a bath with all her clothes on after becoming contaminated with novichok, which had been secreted in a fake perfume bottle that her boyfriend, Charlie Rowley, had given her, the inquiry into her death was told.