The grieving son of Amesbury Novichok victim Dawn Sturgess has called on Donald Trump to raise his mother’s death with Vladimir Putin.
The US president, who is on the last day of his visit to the UK, is due to meet the Russian leader in Helsinki on Monday.
Ewan Hope, 19, said he wants his mother’s killer, or killers, to get what they deserve.
I don’t share Donald Trump’s politics and I’ll never be a supporter of his, but I would like him to raise mum’s case with the Russian president, he told the Sunday Mirror.
We need to get justice for my mum.
The Government has blamed Russia for the failed nerve agent attack on former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Salisbury in March.
Ms Sturgess, 44, and her partner Charlie Rowley fell ill in Amesbury, around eight miles from the Wiltshire city, on June 30.
Police tents are erected outside a residential address in Amesbury, southern England, on July 6, 2018 where police reported a man and woman were found unconscious in circumstances that sparked a major incident after contact with what was later identified as the nerve agent Novichok.
Police on July 6, 2018, raced to find the object that contaminated a British couple with the Soviet-made Novichok nerve agent in southwestern England where a former Russian spy was poisoned with the same toxin four months ago.
It is believed they handled an item contaminated with the Russian-made chemical weapon.
Traces of the nerve agent were found in a small bottle in the Amesbury home of Mr Rowley, 45, who remains in a serious but stable condition at Salisbury District Hospital.
Experts are trying to determine whether the Novichok that poisoned them was from the same batch used in the attempted murder of the Skripals.
US President Donald Trump attends a press conference with Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May following their meeting at Chequers, the prime minister’s country residence, near Ellesborough, northwest of London on July 13, 2018 on the second day of Trump’s UK visit.
US President Donald Trump launched an extraordinary attack on Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit strategy, plunging the transatlantic ‘special relationship’ to a new low as they prepared to meet Friday on the second day of his tumultuous trip to Britain.
Mr Hope said he had been told it could be weeks or even months before he is able to bury his mother, who died on July 8.
He told the paper police had informed him that the mother-of-three’s body is currently property of the Crown.
A post-mortem is scheduled to take place on Tuesday and an inquest into her death is set to open and adjourn in Salisbury on Thursday.
Search teams investigating the poisoning have recovered more than 400 exhibits, samples and items with police warning that searches could last months.
Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu, national lead for Counter Terrorism Policing in the UK, described the process as painstaking and vital work.
Counter-terror detectives are trying to establish where the bottle came from and how it came to be in Mr Rowley’s home.