What are the chances?

[Tranquillus in Exile]

6 August 2018
Ministers are preparing to submit an extradition request to Moscow for two suspects responsible for the Salisbury nerve agent attack, as the Government vowed to exert "international pressure" to force Russia to "do the right thing". Documents are being prepared to force the would-be assassins to return to the UK to face justice, although the order is not expected to be sent for a number of weeks or months.

Last night Government sources pledged to do everything possible to secure a conviction for the Skripal family after Sergei and his daughter Yulia were targeted in a nerve agent attack in March. Dawn Sturgess and Charlie Rowley were subsequently treated for exposure to the deadly nerve agent and Ms Sturgess died as a result.
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Russia has accused the British Government of making the poisoning up, of holding Yulia Skripal against her will, and of inventing evidence about the attack.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politic...-extradition-order-russian-novichok-suspects/

 

[Controlled Opposition]

Hello Tranquillus, I hope you are well.
I would enjoy watching the British attempt to prove it in a court of law.
It might be a weak metaphor, but it's like two forum participants threatening to punch each other out via the Internet.

 

[Tranquillus in Exile]

Hello C.O., likewise.

I think it's likely to be a repeat of this:

British police identified the two likely assassins of Alexander Litvinenko (poisoned in London, 2006). Extradition was sought by the government but nothing came of it. One of the suspects has since been elected to the State Duma.

 

[Jack]

"Russia has accused the British Government of making the poisoning up, of holding Yulia Skripal against her will, and of inventing evidence about the attack."

Gee, that sounds familiar. Didn't the Russians say the Syrian rebels gassed themselves?