The inquiry has broken for lunch now.

This afternoon we'll hear from Wiltshire Police after they were criticised this morning by lawyers for the Dawn Sturgess family.

During lunch we'll look back on some of this morning's evidence.

Ms Giovannetti says evidence shows Sergey Fedotov, whose real name is believed to be Denis Sergeev, "was some kind of coordinator or at least support mechanism to Petrov and Boshirov".

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The inquiry hears "trace amounts" of Novichok were found on the window latch and around the sink at the CityStay Hotel in London where Petrov and Boshirov stayed in March 2018.

"The Novichok found in room 108 was the same specific Novichok found on the front door of 47 Christie Miller Road in Salisbury and in the bottle subsequently recovered from Charlie Rowley's flat in Amesbury," says Lisa Giovanetti KC.

"What does all this mean for how Dawn Sturgess came about her death?," said Ms Giovannetti.

"We submit that the inquiry can properly find, that you can properly find, that not only did the Russian State carry out the attack on Sergei and Yulia Skripal, but that it's responsible for the death of Dawn Sturgess."

Dan O'Brien
At the Dawn Sturgess Inquiry in London

Lisa Giovannetti KC is summing up the last six week’s of evidence from Operation Verbasco, the counter terror police investigation into the poisonings.

The bulk of this setting out the case against the suspects of the original attack, the suspected agents from Russian military intelligence, the GRU – Sergei Skripal’s former employer.

But what does Russia say? The men themselves claimed they were in the city as tourists, and the foreign ministry has called this inquiry a “circus”, saying it “strongly rejects London’s attempts to blame Moscow” for what happened.

The inquiry has been played TV interviews, and shown transcripts and documents of Russian responses throughout the past weeks, and it has previous written to the Russian embassy on more than one occasion asking if the accused men wished to make representations.

We are told the inquiry has not received a reply.

Ms Giovannetti is talking about the movements of Ruslan Boshirov and Alexander Petrov around the time of the poisoning.

She tells the inquiry CCTV shows the suspects likely placed the nerve agent on the Skripals' door handle between midday and 12:15 GMT on 4 March 2018.

She calls the suspects' own accounts of the trip via a TV interview "untrue" and "fundamentally inconsistent with the CCTV of their movements".

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Ms Giovannetti says the conclusion of CTP's investigation is that Ruslan Boshirov, Alexander Petrov and the man they refer to as Sergey Fedotov were responsible for placing Novichok on the door handle of Mr Skripal's home "with the intention of killing Sergei Skripal and that they were acting on the Russian State in their capacity as members of the GRU".

She explains "it's clear that the primary point of contamination was the front door handle".

She says the levels of contamination were "very substantially higher" on the door handle than any other location.

Ms Giovannetti says the attack on the Skripals was "not only an attack sponsored by a foreign state, but also the first identified use of the chemical weapon in the United Kingdom".

We're hearing now from Lisa Giovannetti KC for Operation Verbasco, the counter-terror policing investigation.

We are hearing about the sequence of events of the poisoning of the Skripals and how the Novichok was found in their home.

Mr Mansfield says the Skripals are grateful for the way the inquiry has been conducted.

But he said the family are concerned that their "grief has produced a situation" where no action was taken.

"Were the Skripals warned that Russia was targeting their communications?," said Mr Mansfield.

"It would appear they weren't warned. Nothing was done," he added.

"If we're right that no precautions taken... we would suggest that because of the misinformation that Russia has specialised in, the answer should be made public."

Mr Mansfield tells the inquiry the Skripals should have been warned about the risk to their safety.

"This was a targeted assassination.

"The Skripals didn't take care of the communication. Mr Skripal only remembers using his landline," he said.

Mr Mansfield says the movements of the Skripals and the vulnerability of their home makes them "sitting ducks"

Michael Mansfield is again talking about the risk assessment for the Skripals being in the UK.

"The risk assessment wasn't a miscalculation but an abject failure," he tells the inquiry.

But then goes on to say there were no security measures for the Skripal's home, and they didn't even lived in gated accommodation - meaning it was easier to get into their home.

"It just doesn't do for protecting the public."

Mr Mansfield says the case of the murdered Russian spy, Litvinenko case is important to this inquiry.

Mr Litvinenko was "assassinating basically, by the organisation for whom he worked, exactly the same as Skripal, except he survived, fortunately".

Mr Mansfield tells the inquiry there is no evidence that any precautions were taken to protect the Skripals.

"No alarms, nothing. Nothing on the ground, Mr Skripal wasn't aware of any."

"The risk of a threat of this kind, that is an attack on somebody such as Sergei Skripal as a target, was manifestly obvious."

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Dan O'Brien
At the Dawn Sturgess Inquiry in London

When Mansfield talks of "failure" by the UK government to protect people, he is joining the dots back to the original target of this attack, the Skripals.

Being allowed to live without any apparent security and under his own name - while, he says, being an obvious target for such an attack, puts the public at large at risk and should not have been allowed.

He is pitching a series of questions to be put forward in the closed hearings which will feature the Security Services - hearings which the Sturgess family legal team will not be able to take part in.

"There's been an abject failure by the UK Government to protect the UK public," said Mr Mansfield.

He explains Dawn's mum Caroline said: "We're all lucky no more people ended up dead."

We're back with Michael Mansfield KC, who is talking about the first duty of government is security.

He says there has been a "failure" to do this.

The inquiry is taking a short break.

There's lots more to go this morning. We'll be hearing from Wiltshire Police and the ambulance service later on.

Jesse Nicholls said the Department of Health and Social Care considered a secondary incident as early as 15 March.

"There is no evidence that the document was ever circulated outside of the department.

"It seems that that reasonable worst case scenario was identified, rightly, and then essentially forgotten."