Brian Tarpey says he and his team were ‘outmanoeuvred like a chess piece’ by the Russians during a trip to Moscow JEREMY YOUNGThree days after he began running the investigation into the poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko, Detective Superintendent Clive Timmons got a phone call that changed everything. On November 23, 2006 the officer at the Metropolitan police was informed by Britain’s Atomic Weapons Establishment that a lethal dose of polonium-210, a radioactive substance, had been found in the urine of Litvinenko, a British citizen and former KGB officer. Earlier that day Litvinenko, 44, had suffered a cardiac arrest in hospital. He had been given a dose of polonium “more than a million times” the amount needed to kill a man, according to police. Until then doctors had been unable to determine the cause of his illness after he was admitted to Barnet Hospital in north London and…

Source: The Times April 08, 2017 22:56 UTC