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Sep 5, 2018 7 tweets 3 min read
I'm going to retweet the crucial evidential pictures of the #Salisbury suspects in the correct chronological order, with some maps. It shows how quickly the suspects struck and left the city. Here's the thread: 1) Arrival in Salisbury. "Petrov" and "Boshirov" take a train to Salisbury on Sunday 4 March - after carrying out recon the day before. Here they are at Salisbury station at 11.48am. They are about a mile or so from Mr Skripal's home:
Sep 5, 2018 7 tweets 1 min read
Here's what the huge police investigation into the #Salisbury attack has established about the prime suspects "Petrov" and "Boshirov": 1) They flew into Gatwick at 3pm on Friday, 2 March on an Aeroflot flight from Moscow. Flight number SU2588.
Aug 1, 2018 5 tweets 1 min read
Good morning from the Court of Appeal. I’m here for the judgement in the Tommy Robinson case aka Stephen Yaxley-Lennon. He’s serving 13 months for Contempt of Court. He’s appealed his admission of the Contempt on a technicality and the sentence as too harsh. It’s a complicated story and there’s a lot of totally inaccurate reporting on social media. So here are the facts:
Jun 18, 2018 10 tweets 2 min read
What with the NHS funding hoohar and an England game about to achieve full spectrum dominance, what kind of really important story about failings by officials charged with preventing terrorism could possibly be published today?? Parsons Green Tube Bomber: Officials involved in supposedly deradicalising him considered giving him the all clear 10 days before his attack. Summary today reveals serious failings by police and other officials: bbc.co.uk/news/uk-445231…
Apr 6, 2018 5 tweets 1 min read
Poisoned Russian spy Sergei Skripal’s pet guinea pigs and cat have died after being sealed in his Salisbury home by the police. The guinea pigs were found dead when a vet was eventually allowed by the police to enter Sergei Skripal’s home. We understand they starved to death - they weren’t killed by Novichok nerve agent.