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Litvinenko case

LONDON: On the first anniversary of the mysterious death of Alexander Litvinenko, a former KGB agent who died here after being infected with the radio-active material polonium 210, his wife on Friday took the case to the European Court of Human Rights. The move is intended to put pressure on Russia to extradite an alleged key suspect to Britain to stand trial for her husband’s death.

Moscow has refused to extradite Andrei Lugovoi, also a former KGB officer and said to be close to the Kremlin.

Marina Litvinenko’s legal team claimed there was evidence that the poison could only have come from a plant in the Russian Federation. She clailmed the evidence had come from a top scientist who had extensive knowledge of Russian’s nuclear facilities.

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