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These things could happen again and everyone needs to be concerned about it. “She would have been the first to say: ‘Thank god it was me and not children who picked the poison up.’ This could have happened to anybody. She was an innocent girl that was poisoned. Dawn was sorting herself out and I think she was getting there.” Stan added: “The press put out that it was her lifestyle that caused her death. Skripal and his daughter Yulia collapsed in Salisbury on 4 March 2018 after being poisoned with the nerve agent novichok at his home on the outskirts of the city. On 30 June 2018, mother-of-three Dawn Sturgess, 44, and her partner, Charlie Rowley, fell ill at his home in Amesbury, 11 miles north of Salisbury.Īt first, police believed the couple had taken contaminated drugs but tests showed they too had been poisoned with novichok. The Skripals and Rowley survived but Sturgess died on 8 July. Rowley later revealed the novichok had been in a perfume bottle and that she had sprayed the oily liquid over her skin. He said he had found the bottle and given it to her as a gift. Her parents are campaigning for her inquest to be a wide-ranging hearing, taking into account issues such as whether the British state could have done more to protect her.

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They also believe the full truth about the number of people affected by the poisoning has not come out. “Things like the drama can help push the door open a bit.” “What happened to Dawn affected a lot more people than us,” said Stan. The Sturgesses first broke their silence in an interview with the Guardian last year. They told how, in a strange way, they were relieved when it became clear their daughter had been poisoned with nerve agent rather than contaminated drugs or drink. “So many people said she did drugs,” said Caroline. “When the results came back I made them repeat it three times, I said: ‘You’re telling me it wasn’t her fault. She didn’t have drugs in her system.’ That meant such a lot, they can write whatever they want now.”įor the BBC drama, the couple met the director Saul Dibb and the actors who played them and their daughter – Ron Cook, Stella Gonet and MyAnna Buring. When they met, Caroline Sturgess and Gonet turned up in almost-matching outfits. “I felt Stella was like me and I was like her. The Sturgesses were delighted that Buring was going to play their daughter. She was aware we had lost someone and she seemed really in tune with it.” She was not afraid to be demonstrative with us. Stan said: “MyAnna wanted to get to know what Dawn was like.