Police investigating claims Russian spy Sergei Skripal’s £1 bag of porridge was poisoned by daughter Yulia’s ‘female pal’
COPS have quizzed a woman pal of Yulia Skripal after she jetted to Britain with a £1 bag of cereal for stricken spy Sergei.
It is feared his porridge could have been poisoned.
He had asked daughter Yulia, 33, to bring the Russian-style breakfast from Moscow.
Sergei, 66, also demanded bay leaves and spices from his motherland.
But in the rush to fly to London — the day before the March 4 nerve-agent attack — she forgot to pick up the grocery gifts.
So instead, Yulia asked an unnamed woman, who flew to London separately, to buy and bring the buckwheat, his favourite breakfast meal.
It is understood Scotland Yard has “interrogated” the woman, who works for a major medical company in Russia, about the gifts.
She flew to Britain with her husband shortly after Yulia, it is understood.
It is not clear when or how the gifts were delivered.
A source said: “Police had suspected gifts from Yulia to her father might have contained the Novichok nerve agent.”
Traces of the poison are said to have been found on the front door of Sergei’s home in Salisbury, Wilts.
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Yulia has made a dramatic recovery in hospital, and police hope she can shed light on the attack – and solve the porridge puzzler.
Her double-agent dad Sergei remains in a coma.
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