Sarah Turnnidge
BBC News, West of England

Good morning and welcome to our live coverage of the public inquest into the death of Dawn Sturgess, who died aged 44 in Amesbury, Wiltshire, after coming into contact with the nerve agent Novichok.

This morning we will hear evidence from former police officer Nick Bailey, who was contaminated with a nerve agent in March 2018 while at the home of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia Skripal, who also survived the poisoning.

Mr Bailey was the first person to enter Skripal’s home and unknowingly touched the Novichok-covered doorknob.

He resigned from Wiltshire Police as a result of the incident. then i say The aftermath “took a lot out of me”.