Novichok survivor warns Alexei Navalny’s widow ‘you possibly can be subsequent’

  • Charlie Rowley, a Salisbury Novichok poisonings survivor, issued the warning

A survivor of the Salisbury Novichok poisonings has warned Alexei Navalny‘s widow that she ‘might be subsequent’.

Charlie Rowley’s companion Dawn Sturgess was killed by the lethal nerve agent in 2018 and he was left partly paralysed.

Now he fears Yulia Navalnaya might be Putin‘s subsequent sufferer and has warned her to ‘watch her again’.

His intervention comes after Navalnaya launched a video insisting Putin had used Novichok to homicide her jailed husband after he ‘couldn’t be damaged’.

The physique of late Russian dissident Alexei Navalny was handed over to his mom as we speak after a 9 day wait.

Charlie Rowley, a survivor of the Salisbury Novichok poisonings, has warned Alexei Navalny ‘s widow Yulia Navalnaya that she ‘might be subsequent’

Yulia Navalnaya just lately launched a video insisting Putin had used Novichok to homicide her jailed husband after he ‘couldn’t be damaged’

Mr Rowley’s companion Dawn Sturgess (pictured), was unwittingly poisoned by Novichok resulting in her dying in 2018

Alexei Navalny, pictured in courtroom in 2021, died immediately on February 16 after a stroll, in keeping with Russia. His shock dying aged 47 has led critics responsible Putin for direct involvement

Mr Rowley, 50, informed The Mirror the information of Navalny’s dying despatched him despatched him spiralling again into PTSD and his worst nightmares. 

He mentioned if he ever meets Yulia he might be linked to her as he is aware of Putin ‘wrecks lives’ as a result of he destroyed his and his companion Dawn’s.

‘But I need to warn her to look at her again. Be very cautious or she might be subsequent’ he informed the paper.

Mr Rowley nonetheless lives in worry and mentioned he may say nasty phrases about Putin however doesn’t need to. 

He remains to be traumatised from the occasions surrounding the alleged tried homicide of former Russian navy intelligence double agent Sergei Skripal, 68, in Salisbury.

In March 2018 each he and his then 33-year-old daughter Yulia have been rushed to hospital in vital situation after coming into contact with Novichok – a lethal nerve agent concocted by Soviet scientists throughout the Cold War.

Russian brokers spied on Sergei and Yulia Skripal (pictured) 5 years earlier than the Salisbury novichok poisoning – they each survived

Mother-of-three Dawn Sturgess (left) and her companion Charlie Rowley (proper) fell ailing on the flat after she dealt with a fragrance bottle containing the poison. She died in hospital in Salisbury, Wiltshire, on July 8, 2018. Mr Rowley was left severely ailing however recovered

The counterfeit fragrance field discovered by Mr Rowley in June 2018

Both of the Russian suspects escaped following the assault. Russia claims they have been simply vacationers visiting the well-known cathedral’s tall spire

They survived the suspected tried homicide, however 4 months later Mr Rowley discovered the pretend Nina Ricci fragrance bottle in a charity store bin which contained the Novichok utilized by the Moscow hitmen of their preliminary botched assassination of the Skripals.

He gave it to his companion Ms Sturgess who unwittingly sprayed it on her wrist.

The pair have been admitted to hospital inside hours, and tragically Ms Sturgess, 44, died on July 8, 2018. 

Mr Rowley suffered a number of strokes and nerve injury and misplaced his dwelling after the assault as a result of the property was severely contaminated.

Remembering his ordeal of struggling Mr Rowley mentioned he’s positive Navalny would have suffered his ‘worst nightmare’.

He mentioned the sickness triggered him to really feel like he was going by ‘hell’. 

Yesterday, supporters of Navalny, 47, celebrated after his physique was finally returned to his household after a 9 day wait.

Navalny in a listening to through video hyperlink from the penal colony in Kharp on January 11, 2024 

Yulia Navalnaya, spouse of the late Russian dissident Alexei Navalny, leaves the Europa Building in Brussels on February 19, three days after the dying of her husband

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a presentation in Kazan, February 22, 2024

Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny and his spouse Yulia Navalnaya in September 2020

Navalnaya mentioned in her deal with that Putin’s determination to not launch the physique was ‘satanism’

Russia beforehand mentioned it will not launch Navalny’s physique to his household for 14 days as investigators probe the hazy circumstances of his dying – a transfer critics mentioned advised foul play.

Navalny was beforehand poisoned with Novichok whereas investigating Russian corruption in 2020.

It isn’t but identified what triggered Navalny’s dying, with Russia initially claiming he died from ‘sudden dying syndrome’ after a stroll on February 16.

Paramedics reportedly got here to attempt to rehabilitate him with out success.

Navalny, who was serving a 19-year sentence on fees of ‘extremism’, had solely just lately been moved from his former jail within the Vladimir area of central Russia to a grisly ‘particular regime’ penal colony above the Arctic Circle. 

Navalny was final seen through video hyperlink throughout a courtroom listening to.

Yulia Navalnaya, who has vowed to maintain up her late husband’s anti-corruption work, mentioned in a brand new video straight accusing Putin of accountability in Navalny’s dying: ‘What Putin is doing now could be hate. No, it isn’t even hatred, it is Satanism.’

‘What will you do along with his corpse? How low will you sink to mock the person you murdered?’ she continued.

The Kremlin has denied allegations of its involvement in Navalny’s dying, calling the West’s response ‘hysterical’. 

Putin, who famously by no means mentioned Navalny’s title in public, has not commented on the dying of his most vocal critic.

Following a non-public assembly with US President Joe Biden on Thursday, Yulia Navalnaya spoke candidly about her husband’s dying in a video shared on YouTube.