Licence To Kill 'Double Agent' In UK? 

Federal Security Service (FSB) of Russia had seemingly arrested former military intelligence officer Sergei Viktorovich Skripal in 2004 for acting as an agent for the British intelligence service. Moscow claimed that he had revealed his identity to the British foreign intelligence service - MI6 - in exchange of pecuniary and other benefits. Later in 2006, he was tried, convicted of high treason and imprisoned for 13 years. Skripal settled in Britain in 2010 as a part of the 'Illegal Programme Spy Swap' between Moscow and London. One Russian jet and a British jet landed on the tarmac of Vienna International Airport, where 10 passengers (read spies) from both exchanged their places. The 'double agent' might have had the thought that Britain would be a safe haven for him. Unfortunately, it wasn't so!

Skripal and his daughter Yulia were admitted to Salisbury District Hospital in...