Thread by @timtron2020

The timeline of the #Skripals' movements on the day they were poisoned (Sun, Mar 4 2018) isn't clear. Did they go to the pub and then for a meal, or the other way around? Maybe it doesn't matter.

But here's what we know according to the official account, with rough timings. 1/6

12.30pm: Two Russian agents walk up to Sergei Skripal's front door in broad daylight on a Sunday lunchtime while he & Yulia are at home, and spray it with one of the deadliest nerve agents known to man using a specially adapted perfume bottle. They then head into Salisbury... 2/6

...and are later captured on CCTV in town, shopping.

13.30: Sergei and Yulia leave the house, both touching the front door and so becoming exposed to a nerve agent said to be eight times more lethal than VX, which kills in minutes.

13.45: The Skripals are seen on CCTV... 3/6

...feeding ducks with children in Salisbury. They give the ducks bread from their poisoned hands and also give bread to the kids. No ducks or children were harmed, thankfully.

14.00: The Skripals have a meal at Zizzi restaurant.

15.00: They go for a drink at The Mill pub. 4/6

16.10: The Skripals are found in a "catatonic" state on a bench close to the pub by Col Alison McCourt, the most senior nurse in the British Army.

They are taken to hospital and treated for suspected drugs overdose. There is no suspicion they have a lethal nerve agent... 5/6

...in their blood for at least 36hrs. However, they in fact have so much poison in their blood that they were suddenly incapacitated while sitting on the bench.

The day ends with Sergei and Yulia in hospital with an undetected amount of lethal nerve agent in their systems. 6/6

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