The James Bond-style perfume bottle Russian hoods used to carry novichok into Britain contained enough nerve agent to kill 4,000, police revealed today.
Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov's bungled attempt to murder Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Salisbury in March could have caused 'significant loss of life'
Four months after the first assassination bid, Dawn Sturgess, 44, died after she and partner Charlie Rowley, 45, found the discarded Nina Ricci bottle.
Ms Sturgess is said to have sprayed it on her wrist believing it was genuine perfume at Mr Rowley's home in in Amesbury - Mr Rowley survived.
A specially made model of the counterfeit 'Nina Ricci' perfume bottle that carried enough the novichok to kill 4,000
The perfume bottle full of Novichok (left), which Russian agents Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov (right) are accused of using in the attack, could have killed up to 4,000 people
Deputy Assistant Commissioner Dean Haydon said the ‘significant amount’ of novichok and the way it was applied was ‘completely reckless’.
He said: ‘When we found it, there was a significant amount of novichok contained within the bottle.’ When asked how many people it could have killed, he told BBC’s Panorama: ‘It’s difficult to say, you know, possibly into the thousands.
‘The amount that was in the bottle and the way it was applied to the Skripals’ home address was completely reckless.’
His probe named Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov as suspects. They have since been unmasked as officers with Russia’s military intelligence service.
Boshirov is Colonel Anatoliy Chepiga, while Petrov is Alexander Mishkin, a military doctor.
They smuggled the novichok into the UK disguised as a sample bottle of Nina Ricci Premier Jour perfume.
Counter-terrorism sources last night confirmed the bottle could have killed as many as 4,000.
Sergey Skripal and his daughter Yulia were poisoned by the chemical agent novichok in Salisbury in March
Dawn Sturgess, left, who died following exposure to the nerve agent, and her partner Charlie Rowley, right
The Russians spent a fortune on the tiny James Bond-inspired perfume bottle used to carry novichok including developing new technology to ensure it wasn't a suicide mission for their agents, experts revealed.
Hamish de Bretton-Gordon, one of Britain's top chemical weapons experts, says the fake sample vial of Nina Ricci Premier Jour could only have been produced by Putin's top scientists in their most sophisticated and top secret lab.
He told MailOnline: 'They needed to ensure that the men carrying out the attack did not kill themselves while doing it. It would be deeply embarrassing if their agents died on foreign soil'.
The two assassins, using the aliases Ruslan Boshirov and Alexander Petrov, carried the bottle of Novichok into the UK unhindered before spraying it on Sergei Skripal's front door in suburban Salisbury in March.
Experts believe the botched hit came after up to three months of development and testing probably sanctioned at the highest levels of the Russian state.
The lab, branded 'Q-ski' after the research and development division of the British Secret Service in James Bond, made the bottle and 'one-way' applicator nozzle so it was impossible for novichok to leak out in transit.
It was also made of special toughened glass, plastic or ceramic sure not to smash, crack or degrade while carrying one of the world deadliest weapons.
Alexander Petrov (pictured right) has now been revealed as Dr Alexander Mishkin. Ruslan Boshirov (pictured left) was revealed two weeks ago as Colonel Anatoliy Chepiga
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