Girl’s grandmother, Caroline Sturgess, reads statement to inquiry into death of Dawn Sturgess in 2018

The daughter of a woman killed in the Wiltshire novichok poisonings has told an inquiry into her death of her sadness that she never got to say goodbye to her.

In a statement read to the inquiry by Dawn Sturgess’s mother, Caroline Sturgess, the girl said: “Me and my mum had a bond that I will never forget. The day I heard she had fallen really ill was heartbreaking to hear.”