British intelligence now believes the nerve agent that poisoned a former Russian spy and his daughter was planted in the daughter’s suitcase, and she unwittingly brought it to the U.K. in her suitcase. Sergie Skripal and his daughter Yulia are both in critical condition at a hospital following the attempted murders that took place nearly two weeks ago. The Telegraph reports that senior British intelligence sources believe the novichok nerve agent was planted in Yulia’s suitcase because she left Moscow for London, which makes it much more difficult for the U.K. to trace who exactly was responsible for the attack. The attack sparked a furious diplomatic war between Russia and the west. Yulia Skripal flew to London from Russia on March 3. The new theory proposes that something in her suitcase, potentially clothing, cosmetics or a gift for her father, was contaminated with the nerve agent, with the intention that it would be opened in Sergei Skripal’s home in Salisbury, England.
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