By Ben Kerrigan-
The police and MI5 are to look into allegations Russia could be connected to a string of deaths in the UK.
The announcement by Home Secretary Amber Rudd comes in the wake of reports that U.S intelligence sources suspect as many as 14 people may have been assassinated on British soil by Russia’s security services or mafia groups.
In each of the cases, police and inquests have found no evidence of foul play. No evidence of foul play was discovered the deaths of Boris Berezovsky- a critic of Russian president, Vladimir Putin, and whistle-blower Alexander Perepilichnyy, police investigations and inquests found no evidence of foul play.
Russia has vehemently denied responsibility for the nerve agent attack on former spy Sergei Skripal in Salisbury last week, and the Kremlin has summoned the British ambassador in Moscow after Sergei Lavrov denied Moscow had access to samples of the nerve agent
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Former police chief Lord Blair – who led the Metropolitan Police at the time of the poisoning murder of Alexander Litvinenko in 2006 – has called for the 14 cases to be reopened, while the cross-party House of Commons Home Affairs Committee has called for a review of decisions made by police.
In a letter to the Committee, written on Saturday and released on Tuesday, Ms Rudd said: “The Government was aware of these allegations, and takes seriously any suggestion that a foreign state has engaged in murder on UK soil.
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