sir keir starmer, talking to henry sesemann outside downing street.ace into the death of dawn sturgess in salisbury in wiltshire. dawn sturgess was the 44—year—old woman who was poisoned by the nerve agent novichok salisbury in 2018. that inquiry opened yesterday. if you were watching yesterday, it was going to hear evidence about links between dawn sturgess' death and the attempted murderfour months attempted murder four months earlier of attempted murderfour months earlier of the former russian double agent sergei skripal and his daughter yulia. the uk security services blamed russia for the attack. the inquiry will hear some classified evidence in private. it is on a ten minute delay, as it started at ten, we are expecting it to come to us soon. but it's about the circumstances that led to the circumstances that led to the death of dawn sturgess in july 2018. she was fatally poisoned after spraying herself with the contents of a perfume bottle which contained a significant amount of the nerve agent novichok. her partner charlie rally told police he