British Inquiry Accuses The Russian Government In The Assassination Of Russian Dissident Alexander Litvinenko

Daily Mail: Britain accuses Putin of MURDER: Bombshell public inquiry says Russian President personally ordered dissident's assassination with radioactive polonium slipped into a London hotel teapot

* A report into Alexander Litvinenko's murder blamed two Russian agents and the inquiry said President Putin probably ordered the death
* Litvinenko's widow Marina said her husband's death bed conclusion had been proven correct by the inquiry findings today
* Independent inquiry said the men should face trial for poisoning him
* Theresa May said the killing was a 'breach of international law' but tells MPs findings are not a surprise
* But one of the assassins Andrei Lugovoi said the charges are 'absurd'
* David Cameron now faces a fresh diplomatic row with Vladimir Putin as the Russian ambassador blasts the 'unacceptable' report was a 'whitewash'

A public inquiry into the assassination of Alexander Litvinenko prompted a furious diplomatic row between Britain and Russia today after an independent probe said President Putin had 'probably' personally authorised the 2006 killing.

Mr Litvinenko - who had accused the Russian president on his death bed - was killed by two FSB spies who slipped radioactive polonium 210 into his tea pot at a Mayfair hotel in central London, Sir Robert Owen said today in a major report.

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