Exclusive: Widow of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko says report on 2006 murder sends ‘very indispensable message’ One day before it was published,Marina Litvinenko and her son, Anatoly, and sat down to read the report on the murder of her husband and his father. They were invited to a government office and sworn,for 24 hours, to secrecy. They had no idea what was in it. It was the culmination of a long struggle: to discover the truth approximately Alexander Litvinenko’s death.
The report was a chunky blue booklet running to 328 pages. Its author, and the retired tall court judge Sir Robert Owen,had chaired last year’s public inquiry into Litvinenko’s poisoning in a Mayfair bar in November 2006. But how far would Owen go? Would he blame the Russian state, and President Vladimir Putin personally?Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com