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Novichok survivor whose partner was killed by Putin's assassins warns Alexei Navalny's widow 'you could be next' - as Russian officials finally release his body nine days after his death
A survivor of the Salisbury Novichok poisonings has warned Alexei Navalny's widow that she 'could be next'.
Charlie Rowley's partner Dawn Sturgess was killed by the deadly nerve agent in 2018 and he was left partly paralysed.
Now he fears Yulia Navalnaya could be Putin's next victim and has warned her to 'watch her back'.
His intervention comes after Navalnaya released a video insisting Putin had used Novichok to murder her jailed husband after he 'could not be broken'.
The body of late Russian dissident Alexei Navalny was handed over to his mother today after a nine day wait.
Charlie Rowley, a survivor of the Salisbury Novichok poisonings, has warned Alexei Navalny 's widow Yulia Navalnaya that she 'could be next'
Yulia Navalnaya recently released a video insisting Putin had used Novichok to murder her jailed husband after he 'could not be broken'
Mr Rowley's partner Dawn Sturgess (pictured), was unwittingly poisoned by Novichok leading to her death in 2018
Alexei Navalny, pictured in court in 2021, died suddenly on February 16 after a walk, according to Russia. His shock death aged 47 has led critics to blame Putin for direct involvement
Mr Rowley, 50, told The Mirror the news of Navalny's death sent him sent him spiralling back into PTSD and his worst nightmares.
He said if he ever meets Yulia he will be linked to her as he knows Putin 'wrecks lives' because he destroyed his and his partner Dawn's.
'But I want to warn her to watch her back. Be very careful or she could be next' he told the paper.
Mr Rowley still lives in fear and said he could say nasty words about Putin but does not want to.
He is still traumatised from the events surrounding the alleged attempted murder of former Russian military intelligence double agent Sergei Skripal, 68, in Salisbury.
In March 2018 both he and his then 33-year-old daughter Yulia were rushed to hospital in critical condition after coming into contact with Novichok - a deadly nerve agent concocted by Soviet scientists during the Cold War.
Russian agents spied on Sergei and Yulia Skripal (pictured) five years before the Salisbury novichok poisoning - they both survived
Mother-of-three Dawn Sturgess (left) and her partner Charlie Rowley (right) fell ill at the flat after she handled a perfume bottle containing the poison. She died in hospital in Salisbury, Wiltshire, on July 8, 2018. Mr Rowley was left seriously ill but recovered
The counterfeit perfume box found by Mr Rowley in June 2018
Both of the Russian suspects escaped following the attack. Russia claims they were just tourists visiting the famous cathedral's tall spire
They survived the suspected attempted murder, but four months later Mr Rowley found the fake Nina Ricci perfume bottle in a charity shop bin which contained the Novichok used by the Moscow hitmen in their initial botched assassination of the Skripals.
He gave it to his partner Ms Sturgess who unwittingly sprayed it on her wrist.
The pair were admitted to hospital within hours, and tragically Ms Sturgess, 44, died on July 8, 2018.
Mr Rowley suffered multiple strokes and nerve damage and lost his home after the attack because the property was severely contaminated.
Remembering his ordeal of suffering Mr Rowley said he is sure Navalny would have suffered his 'worst nightmare'.
He said the illness caused him to feel like he was going through 'hell'.
Yesterday, supporters of Navalny, 47, celebrated after his body was eventually returned to his family after a nine day wait.
Navalny in a hearing via video link from the penal colony in Kharp on January 11, 2024
Yulia Navalnaya, wife of the late Russian dissident Alexei Navalny, leaves the Europa Building in Brussels on February 19, three days after the death of her husband
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a presentation in Kazan, February 22, 2024
Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny and his wife Yulia Navalnaya in September 2020
Navalnaya said in her address that Putin's decision not to release the body was 'satanism'
Russia previously said it would not release Navalny's body to his family for 14 days as investigators probe the hazy circumstances of his death - a move critics said suggested foul play.
Navalny was previously poisoned with Novichok while investigating Russian corruption in 2020.
It is not yet known what caused Navalny's death, with Russia initially claiming he died from 'sudden death syndrome' after a walk on February 16.
Paramedics reportedly came to try to rehabilitate him without success.
Navalny, who was serving a 19-year sentence on charges of 'extremism', had only recently been moved from his former prison in the Vladimir region of central Russia to a grisly 'special regime' penal colony above the Arctic Circle.
Navalny was last seen via video link during a court hearing.
Yulia Navalnaya, who has vowed to keep up her late husband's anti-corruption work, said in a new video directly accusing Putin of responsibility in Navalny's death: 'What Putin is doing now is hate. No, it's not even hatred, it's Satanism.'
'What will you do with his corpse? How low will you sink to mock the man you murdered?' she continued.
The Kremlin has denied allegations of its involvement in Navalny's death, calling the West's reaction 'hysterical'.
Putin, who famously never said Navalny's name in public, has not commented on the death of his most vocal critic.
Following a private meeting with US President Joe Biden on Thursday, Yulia Navalnaya spoke candidly about her husband's death in a video shared on YouTube.