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Nothing changed before Novichok death - spy widow Marina Litvinenko says

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Marina Litvinenko's husband died in 2006 after being poisoned in London with a cup of tea laced with Polonium 210 .

A public inquiry in 2016 concluded that Putin was "probably" behind the assassination.

Dawn Sturgess died in Wiltshire in July 2018 after coming into contact with the same nerve agent.

Widow said: "By not strengthening protection against an attack, people who commit crimes like this feel relaxed, it means they might do this again".

Dawn Sturgess inquiry unlikely to lead to "any special point of achievement", says Ms Litvinenko .

Dawn 's mother previously said it was a "solace" to her family that nobody else had died in the Amesbury incident.

The Russian government has always denied involvement in the Salisbury poisonings.