On the face of it, a reckless operation that left a trail of CCTV images and a discarded perfume bottle enabled police to link the Russian spies known as Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov to the poisoning of former double agent Sergei Skripal.
“This was more Johnny English than James Bond,” declared the UK’s security minister Ben Wallace, a reference to the incompetent fictional MI6 agent played by comedian Rowan Atkinson.
But whether the attempted murder of Mr Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Salisbury was a botched job, rather than intentionally blatant, is an open question.
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