The home of the former Russian spy Sergei Skripal has been sold three years after he was poisoned in a Novichok attack.
The ex-KGB spy and his daughter almost died in 2018 after they came into contact with the deadly nerve agent, which police believe was sprayed onto the door handle of the four-bedroom property.
The house had been lying empty since the attack, but has now been purchased by Wiltshire Council to be used again as a home.
The property features four-bedrooms, two reception rooms and a 22ft lounge. It was bought for £260,000 on August 12, 2011, according to Land Registry, and its current value is unknown.
It was declared free from Novichok in 2019, after military personnel spent more than 13,000 hours deep cleaning contaminated sites across Salisbury. It was the last area to be decontaminated.
A spokesperson for the council said: ‘Wiltshire Council has agreed to purchase 47 Christie Miller Road, Salisbury to enable the property to be brought back into use.
“Once refurbished it will then be offered as a shared ownership property to local residents in line with the council’s affordable housing policies with a legal stipulation that it must be used as a residential property that it may not be sublet and that nobody can trade on its history.”
Council had no choice but to buy it.
Nobody else would!
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Why?
I would if it was the right price in the area I was looking in.
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So tell me all you know about biological warfare!?
Even with 13000 hrs of cleaning would you buy!?
Even would a lender lend!?
I think not
That is why the Council had to buy it.
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