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'Dawn Sturgess Inquiry was a rollercoaster with sinister drama of espionage'

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Dawn Sturgess Inquiry has attracted the world's media for the last six weeks .

It was a rollercoaster of espionage and emotional family statements that gripped all of those watching.

New revelations were constantly made - including that the former Russian spy Sergei Skripal wasn't on the radar of counter terrorism police and that local emergency services had not been given additional training on the symptoms of nerve agent poisoning.

Ross Cassidy , Mr Skripal ’s friend and former neighbour in Salisbury , had a twinkle in his eye when recalling how they would drink and enjoy barbecues together.

He even raised reluctant smiles, and dare we say laughter, from the legal teams when he revealed that he may have exceeded the speed limit when bringing Sergei and Yulia back from Heathrow Airport .

Paramedic Ben Channon was first to make the point that he lived through the Salisbury poisonings.