Health staff working at the Salisbury hospital treating Sergei and Yulia Skripal have complained that they are being closely watched by the UK’s security services, making them fearful of speaking out about events around the poisoning of the two Russians, along with a police officer who has since been discharged.
The SKWAWKBOX contacted the Home Office to ask whether these complaints were correct. A Home Office spokesperson declined to deny that health workers were under surveillance, stating only:
That’s not something we will be commenting on.
Pressed to explain why Salisbury hospital staff should need to be watched, the spokesperson also declined to comment.
In the absence of a government denial, the complaints, which have come from a number of staff, must be taken seriously – and raise the serious question of why such surveillance should be thought necessary.
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Perhaps the Skripals are trying to escape…
I just came across this article again whilst doing some research, and a couple of things occur to me about the article which didn’t at the time it was posted:
1. WHO did the staff complain to?
2. And if they complained to someone or other AND there were things that they were fearful of speaking out about because they were being watched, why didn’t they divulge these things to the person they ‘complained’ to about being watched?
It just occured to me that the most likely explanation is that skwawkbox were being fed a fast one so that they could then be accused of publishing fake news.