The Litvinenko poisoning

The Litvinenko poisoning
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King’s
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Regent’s Park
Barnet Hospital
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Millennium hotel, Grosvenor Sq
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LONDON
Arch
Marble
Itsu sushi bar
Cavendish Place
Street
Oxford
Mayfair
Soho
Blackfriars
58 Grosvenor St
25 Grosvenor St
Hyde Park
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Thames
River
Pescatori restaurant
Constitution
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Parkes hotel
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Knightsbridge
St James’s
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Andrei Lugovoi
Alexander Litvinenko
October
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October 16, 2006
Andrei Lugovoi and Dmitri Kovtun arrive in
London on a Transaero Boeing 737. Meet
Alexander Litvinenko in Bond Street and
together go to 25 Grosvenor Street, office of
Enirys security firm before a late lunch at Itsu
sushi bar
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26
October 25
Lugovoi arrives in London on BA Flight 875.
Polonium later detected on aircraft. Stays at the
Sheraton Park Lane and Litvinenko visits him.
Radiation is later found
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October 28 to October 30
Kovtun on Aeroflot flight from Moscow to Hamburg —
Russians later say no polonium was found on board.
Visits former wife, Marina Wall, in Hamburg. Traces of
polonium-210 later found in ex-wife’s apartment, in a
clothes shop and in former mother-in-law's flat
November
November
1
3
November 1
Kovtun arrives at Heathrow on GermanWings 4U 7342
from Hamburg — same as mystery man "Vladislav".
October 31
Lugovoi comes to London on BA Flight 872 with his
wife and son to watch the Arsenal-CSKA Moscow
match — polonium later detected on plane
October 18
Kovtun and Lugovoi fly to Moscow, on
Transaero
Polonium-210
October 26
Lugovoi says he met Litvinenko in the hotel
lobby and again in the bar on the following
evening before flying back to Moscow on BA
the day after that
TEXT: LINDA MACDONALD, GRAPHIC: JENNY RIDLEY
Boris Berezovsky
Mario Scaramella
May
4
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November 3
Lugovoi and family return to Moscow
November 4
After three days of sickness Litvinenko is admitted to
Barnet General Hospital
November 23
Litvinenko dies in University College Hospital
October 30
Kovtun leaves radiation at an immigration bureau, in a
restaurant and a gambling club
October 17
Litvinenko, Lugovoi and Kovtun meet again,
visiting RISC Management, a security firm in
Cavendish Place. All three go back to Parkes
Hotel
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Paddington
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To
London
Osier Crescent
University Collge
hospital
Moscow
November 30
Inquest confirms he died from radiation poisoning
Police search in Hamburg
12 noon Litvinenko arrives in central London by car
buying a newspaper near Piccadilly Circus. The car later
tested negative for radiation
3pm Meets academic Mario Scaramella at Itsu and
receives documents
4pm Hurries to Boris Berezovsky's office in 7 Down
Street. Shows documents and photocopies them.
Radiation later found on photocopying machine. At
some point he also visits Erinys
4.30pm Litvinenko meets Lugovoi and Kovtun at Pine
Bar, Millennium hotel in Grosvenor Square ahead of
the Arsenal match. Kovtun and Lugovoi went to
Pescatori on the same day. Radiation later detected at
the Emirates stadium and among staff at the Pine Bar
Later, Litvinenko complains of feeling sick and spends
the night vomiting at his home in Osier Crescent
December 1
Mario Scaramella tests positive for polonium-210
December 4
Scotland Yard team flies to Moscow to interview
witnesses including Lugovoi and Kovtun. Two days
later announces it is treating the case as murder
December 7
Litvinenko buried at Highgate cemetery
January 26, 2007
Guardian report names Lugovoi as a suspect
May 22
Crown Prosecution Service says there is enough
evidence to charge Lugovoi with murder and that it
will apply to extradite him from Russia