Alexander Litvinenko

...was very clearly, murdered by the Russian state in London, in direct violation of British law.

What made it all the more terrible is that there was no serious effort at subterfuge. If you’d wanted to make it look like a mugging, you’d get a couple of your guys to stab the bloke to death and take his wallet.

No. They fed him some kind of radioactive isotope, which realistically, only a state could come up with, and let him die horribly.

So, the method was clearly aimed at other dissidents saying, “Keep criticising us and you’ll get the same”

The “denials” are still more insulting. If they’d have said, “it may have been rogue elements in our security services, we will investigate” at least that gives them an out. But no. Their stance amounts to “we killed him, we’ll kill anyone else who criticises us, fuck you”

The Russians are not our friends, and we should on a Europe wide basis, stop trading with them until the perps of this crime are handed over ~ and someone who “died trying to escape the police in Russia” would not be acceptable. Live, questionable prisoners are what is needed. We should call the ambassador back and the EU should do the same, otherwise sanction the Kremlin killing anyone they don’t like in your territory.