Russian Poisonings: The Case of Alexander Litvinenko (PART 4)
Continuing from Part 3 , and the final instalment of this series, we have a look at the challenges that Scotland Yard faced in investigating this case. They were led to over 40 sites on the polonium trail, and all the way to Moscow and the Kremlin. As you can guess, the Russians did not give them an easy time. Read on to see what happened! THE POLICE INVESTIGATION The police investigation started with interviewing Alexander Litvinenko for a period of 3 days, 9 hours in total. Police could see that he was in pain, and suffering horrendously, but he never complained or asked to stop. The Scotland Yard Counter-Terrorism Unit was assigned to the investigation. Clive Timmons was the Detective Superintendent on the case. Clive Timmons, Detective Superintendent from Scotland Yard As mentioned in the previous post, Timmons requested that a living post-mortem be conducted on Litvinenko so as to find more evidence like puncture wounds, scratch marks, etc. It was really befuddling to t