As you can see in my somewhat crudely put together map below, people have been free to walk between the two venues (as represented by the blue line) all along, which takes in Market Walk. Those two venues have been closed off, but not the pathway between them, which includes the Market Walk. In any case, none of the area between The Mill and Zizzis has been closed off since 4th March. Again, that’s not exactly a scientific observation, but it comes coupled with the nagging doubt: would it really take that long to decontaminate it? Is it still being decontaminated? Perhaps, although on the occasions when I’ve walked past it, I can’t say that I have seen any of the chaps with the HazMats there, doing their thing. It is still boarded up, and the big question is why. However, I’ve tended to treat the visit to the pub as a bit incidental to the whole thing – that is until I took a stroll with my family into the City Centre and happened to walk past The Mill. There seemed to be something a little odd about it. It’s always nagged at me a bit that the official timeline given out by the Metropolitan Police had the pair visiting the pub first then the restaurant. But two people going out to a restaurant in early to late afternoon? Perhaps the Skripals do things differently, but I think you’d ordinarily expect meal then drink, not the other way around. The exception to the rule might be something like a late-night curry, or the like, after drinks. Normally, people would probably want to eat and at least line their stomachs, and then go for a drink afterwards. As I say, it was anything but scientific, but the responses were so emphatic that I take it that there may well be something in it. In an entirely unscientific sample (basically my family), when I asked this question the answers were resoundingly in favour of “B”. As ever, I will do my best to explain why, with the added bonus that in doing so, I will also suggest how what I think is the true timeline of events makes sense of one of the most puzzling bits of the whole story.īut before I get on to the details, let me ask you a question: if you go out for a meal and a drink, do you:Ī) Go for the drink first, followed by the meal orī) Go for the meal first, followed by the drink? In fact, I definitely know that some of it is at least deficient, since it does not mention the fact that Mr Skripal was feeding ducks with some boys near the Avon Playground (in The Maltings) at 1:45pm – something which was captured by CCTV.īut my current inclination is to think that there is more than this which is wrong. That all seems fairly straightforward, does it not?īut what I want to do in this piece is to air my doubts as to whether this it is actually correct. 16:15 – Emergency services are called by a member of the public to the bench where Sergei and Yulia are slumped on a bench.Approximately 14.20 – The father and daughter eat at Zizzi restaurant on Castle Street.The pair go to The Mill pub in Salisbury.13:40 – Sergei and Yulia arrive at the Sainsbury’s upper level car park in The Maltings.Here’s how the Metropolitan Police put it in their official timeline on 13th March: The timeline after the morning is fairly well established. Perhaps this question has been asked, but if a response was forthcoming, it has not been shared with the public, which is odd, since it’s information like that which can actually help jog people’s memories and lead to new information. Just a simple, “So, Sergei, what were you doing on the morning of 4th March” would probably do. As I have mentioned previously, many of the appeals regarding the timeline were in connection with what happened in the morning of that day, since Mr Skripal’s and Yulia’s phones were both switched off, and at the time of the appeals, neither was apparently able to talk.Īs I also never tire of pointing out, Sergei and Yulia have been awake and doing well for months now, and so it wouldn’t take the world’s greatest detective to work out what their movements were on the morning of 4th March. I think it’s time for a question or two around the official timeline of events on 4th March.
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