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Detectives are following multiple leads as they investigate the nerve agent poisoning of former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia, Scotland Yard has said.

Updating the press on the case, Dean Haydon, Deputy Assistant Commissioner and counter terrorism coordinator, said: "With such a sensitive and complex investigation, I am sure the public will appreciate that there are still a number of lines of inquiry being progressed that we cannot discuss at this stage.

"What I am able to say is that the team working on the investigation remain completely committed to finding out what happened and continue to follow every possible lead.

"Our enquiries are focused around the people and vehicles that were in the vicinity of the Skripal's address and leading up to where they fell ill in The Maltings. We would ask anyone who may have information, or who may have seen or heard something - however small - to contact police."