As well as with the aim of helping the family “grieve the loss of their loved one, and come to terms with her death”, barrister Michael Mansfield KC warned that openness in the inquiry will be “of great importance” in countering the “huge amount” of Russian disinformation about Salisbury.

Salisbury poisoning victim Sergei Skripal believes Vladimir Putin personally ordered the Novichok attack on him and his daughter Yulia, the former spy has told the inquiry into Dawn Sturgess ’s death.

Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia narrowly survived the attack in 2018, during which members of a Russian military intelligence squad are believed to have smeared the nerve agent on a door handle