Skip to main content
The Morning Star Shop
Public inquiry launched into Alexander Livinenko's death

THE government belatedly announced a public inquiry yesterday into the murky events surrounding the death of KGB defector Alexander Litvinenko over seven years ago.

Mr Litvinenko died in November 2006 in a London hospital after he was poisoned with with radioactive polonium as he took tea with two Russian men.

His family allege that he was working for MI6 at the time and was killed on the orders of Russian intelligence chiefs.

The 95th Anniversary Appeal
Support the Morning Star
You have reached the free limit.
Subscribe to continue reading.
More from this author
Jeremy Corbyn at a surprise event held by the Speaker of the
From the archives… / 10 June 2023
10 June 2023
The Morning Star reprints an account of the event to mark Corbyn’s 30th anniversary of being an MP, from Wednesday September 4 2013, by then parliamentary correspondent ROGER BAGLEY
Britain / 15 September 2015
15 September 2015
Britain / 15 September 2015
15 September 2015
Britain / 15 September 2015
15 September 2015