The former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia have begun a new life in New Zealand, according to senior government sources.
A week before the broadcast of a BBC drama telling the story of those caught up in the novichok nerve agent attack in Salisbury in 2018, it has emerged that the pair have moved overseas after living for more than a year in an MI6 safe house.
A senior government source with knowledge of the risk assessment carried out on the couple at the time of the move, said the Skripals had been given new identities and support to start a new life.
The pair were found unconscious on a park bench in Salisbury, Wiltshire, on March 4, 2018, after Russian agents
