Chemical weapons expert Anton Utkin said Charlie Rowley and Don Sturges had been the victims of the terrorist attack in Amesbury, and had not suffered at all from the remnants of the "Novice" employed in Salisbury. He stressed that after Rowley came to himself and was questioned, the version that the poisonings in Salisbury and Amesbury were interrelated disintegrated. At the same time, Utkin added that it is very important for London that the poisoning of the pair of Rowley and his girlfriend Dona Sturges looked random, for the sake of this the police keeps the man under control, preventing him from communicating with friends and the press. The expert considers important the fact that the packaging with perfume, which was presented to the friend of Rowley, was very expensive, and it was sealed. "Thus, the version that the bottle is the remainder of that poisonous substance that was poisoned by the Violins is breaking down. And then only one version remains. It consists in the fact that it was a deliberate terrorist act, "Utkin said in the program" 60 Minutes ". The new embarrassing information about the incident in Amesbury was expressed by the Russian Embassy in Great Britain. "Sealed box, discarded bottle or bottle of perfume, broken with bare hands?" The British media (and, very likely, the government) are muddying the water with fresh and controversial theories about what happened in Amesbury, but they still blame Russia, "according to the microblog diplomatic representations on Twitter. The British Don Sturges Charles Rowley were hospitalized in the city of Amesbury in critical condition on June 30.

Scotland Yard said. that, presumably, the couple could be poisoned with the substance "Novice", who in early March were poisoned in Salisbury by ex-colonel GRU Sergei Skripal and his daughter Julia. Sturges died on July 8 at the hospital, Rowley discharged from the hospital on July 20. In an interview with ITV, the injured Briton said that he found and gave his girlfriend a bottle of perfume, and that she sprays their wrists. According to Rowley, the perfume looked completely new.