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From Mountain of CCTV Footage, Pay Dirt: 2 Arrests in Spy Poisoning nyti.ms/2CjzuOu

“It’s almost IMPOSSIBLE in this country to hide, ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE,” said John Bayliss.

“And with the new software they have, you can tell the person by THE WAY THEY WALK, or a RING THEY WEAR, or a WATCH THEY WEAR. It becomes even harder.”

This is what FACTS look like: 👇🏼

"Officers took samples from the [hotel] room where the two men had stayed, and sent them for laboratory testing. Two of them showed trace contamination for the nerve agent used in the attack."

"Two hours later, Prime Minister Theresa May announced that British intelligence services had identified the men as officers in the G.R.U., Russia’s military intelligence service."

Damn. GRU were some busy motherlovers!

It may not have been the stuff of action films, but Mr. Hurford-Jones did see something impressive about the whole thing.

“It’s methodical, plodding,” he said. “But, you know, that’s the only way you can do these things. There is a bit of Englishness in it.”

The investigation drew on some of Scotland Yard’s most storied assets, like its Super-Recognizer Unit. Its officers are selected for their superior ability to remember faces — the opposite of prosopagnosia, also known as “face-blindness.”

Investigators released a cache of evidence, including security camera images that captured the progress of the two men from an Aeroflot flight to the scene of the crime, and from there back to Moscow.

“There are a lot of people who would sort of give up on it, because what’s the point? They’re in Russia, we’re not going to get them back. But the thing is, once you’ve got it to that point, that means those people can’t leave Russia.”

Beyond that, Mr. Bayliss said, “there is a SATISFACTION getting to THE TRUTH, to be able to PROVE to the Western world that the Russians DID THIS.”

#TruthMustAlwaysMatter