This farce/fiasco/lie that it has become, looks more ridiculous with each passing day (if that's possible) as the authorities try desperately to cover up the loose ends to try and stop them being made to look bigger fools than they already are.
The following article appears in todays Telegraph behind a pay-wall. Not all articles are behind the pay-wall, but the Telegraph have decided that this evolving news is of such gravity and importance, that it should be. The headline is:
"
Police identify key suspects in nerve agent attack on Sergei Skripal."
As I have full access to the newspaper, I quote a full section:
"Police and intelligence agencies have identified key suspects in the attempted assassination of Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia, The Telegraph understands.
Counter-terrorism police are now trying to build a case against “persons of interest”, who are believed to be back in Russia.
The Telegraph has been told that the criminal inquiry, expected to take many more months, is understood to have made a major breakthrough in identifying key people over the nerve agent attack.
It is thought that a search of flight manifests in and out of the UK has yielded specific names in the hunt for the Skripals’ would-be assassins. Police have also drawn on extensive CCTV footage in Salisbury and have also drawn on extensive CCTV footage in Salisbury and have also trawled car number plate recognition cameras.
But counter-terror police will hit a diplomatic brick wall in trying to interview - let alone prosecute - the suspects"
So right away, the story has moved from "suspect" to "persons of interest". They are not the same.
And they are “believed” to have returned to Russia. But “believed” = “I could be wrong about that”, unless the English language has changed radically since I was at school. So there is at least the possibility that they are still in the UK. Stranger things have happened, I suppose.
So why no manhunt? Why no release of their passport photos? Why no “have you seen this man?” notices in public places in Salisbury and beyond? Why no grainy CCTV video of those suspects scuttling around Skripal’s neighbourhood?
This is the most bizarre manhunt of all time, bar none. Indeed, it is exactly how you would expect a government to behave if it knew who really "dunnit" – because they must of "dunnit" themselves.
Also within the article was a video that included policeman in normal uniform walking around the Skripals house- you know where the highest concentration of the military grade nerve agent that kills in seconds, is to be found and where decontamination is to take place.
EDIT: "Mr Skripal's home - where the highest concentration of military grade Novichok was found - will be the last site to be decontaminated."
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-43833582
Hang on though- wouldn't you have thought that place with the highest concentration would have been decontaminated first. DOH!
As Marin Luther King once said: "A lie is like a snowball: the further you roll it the bigger it becomes."
Big lol.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...rgei-skripal/?